City size comparison

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Shanghai is about 167 times bigger than Sarasota.

Sarasota (map shows its 40 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 38 sq km, while Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, making Shanghai 16,551% larger than Sarasota.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sarasota vs. Shanghai uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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