City size comparison
compared to
Chicago is about 1.3 times bigger than New Orleans.
New Orleans is approximately 439 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 34% larger than New Orleans.
This to-scale comparison of
New Orleans
vs.
Chicago
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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