Country size comparison

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Shanghai is about 518 times smaller than India.

India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Shanghai is approximately 6,341 sq km, making Shanghai 0.19% the size of India.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of India vs. Shanghai uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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