City size comparison
compared to
Detroit is about 480 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Detroit is approximately 359 sq km, making Detroit 0.21% the size of Washington.
This to-scale comparison of
Washington
vs.
Detroit
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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