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India is about 518 times bigger than Shanghai.

Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 51,741% larger than Shanghai.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Shanghai vs. India uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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