Country size comparison

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France is about 4,558 times bigger than San Francisco.

San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 455,685% larger than San Francisco.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of San Francisco vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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