City size comparison

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Stockholm is about 12 times smaller than Cape Town.

Cape Town is approximately 2,455 sq km, while Stockholm (map shows its 47 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 207 sq km, making Stockholm 8.45% the size of Cape Town.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cape Town vs. Stockholm uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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