City size comparison

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Wichita is about 1.4 times smaller than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Wichita (map shows its 73 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 428 sq km, making Wichita 72.49% the size of Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Wichita uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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