Country size comparison

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Russia is about 28,989 times bigger than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 2,898,792% larger than Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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