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It's about two times as big as Abel Tasman National Park
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The size of Abel Tasman National Park is about 86.990 square miles.
(Tasman District, South Island, New Zealand)
New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park measures about 86.990 square miles in total area. The size of the park has increased over the years as donated parcels of land have been added to it, with the last expansion in 2008 adding 3.05 square miles.
It's about two-fifths as big as San Antonio
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The size of San Antonio is about 407.70 square miles.
(Texas)
The second-largest city in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States as of 2009, San Antonio measures 407.70 square miles in total area. The city is known for its tourist attractions, including the Alamo Mission and the annual San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.
It's about two-and-a-half times as big as Washington, D.C.
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The size of Washington, D.C. is about 68.30 square miles.
(formally the District of Columbia, a.k.a. Washington, a.k.a. the District, a.k.a. DC) (United State)
The United States' capital and only federal district, Washington, D.C. is a 68.30 square miles area located between the states of Virginia and Maryland. Washington, D.C. is known as the center of each of the three branches of the United States federal government and as home to many of the nation's monuments, museums, and foreign embassies.
It's about two-fifths as big as Los Angeles
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The size of Los Angeles is about 469.10 square miles.
(a.k.a. LA, a.k.a. City of Angels) (California)
The largest city in California and the sixth-largest city in the United States, Los Angeles measures 469.10 square miles in total area. The city is known as the "Entertainment Capital of the World" for its contributions to media, entertainment, and culture.
It's about two-fifths as big as Phoenix
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The size of Phoenix is about 475 square miles.
(Arizona)
The capital of and largest city in Arizona and fifth-largest city in the United States as of 2009, Phoenix measures 475 square miles in total area. The city is known as an economic and cultural center of the American Southwest.
It's about one-third as big as Wellington
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The size of Wellington is about 535.90 square miles.
(Te Whanganui-a-Tara) (New Zealand) (Wellington metro area)
The capital of New Zealand, Wellington covers 535.90 square miles in total area. The Old Government Buildings, the former site of Kiwi government administration for over one-hundred years, is one of the largest wooden buildings in the world.
It's about three-tenths as big as Delihi
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The size of Delihi is about 572.60 square miles.
(a.k.a. Dillī, a.k.a. Dillī, a.k.a. Dēhlī, formally National Capital Territory of Delhi) (India)
Delhi, the capital union territory of India, covers 572.60 square miles. Delhi has one of the highest road densities in the country of India, with 29,648 km of roads.
It's about three-tenths as big as Houston
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The size of Houston is about 579.50 square miles.
(Texas)
The largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest city in the United States as of 2009, Houston measures 579.50 square miles in total area. The city is known for its broad corporate base, prominence in oilfield equipment, and for its port, which accepts more cargo than any other port in the United States.
It's about three-tenths as big as London
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The size of London is about 609.70 square miles.
(a.k.a. Greater London) (London Region) (England, United Kingdom)
London, one of the most important global cities in the world, currently occupies a total area of 609.70 square miles. For more than one hundred years, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was the largest city in the world by population.
It's about three-tenths as big as Stewart Island
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The size of Stewart Island is about 648.70 square miles.
(a.k.a. Rakiura) (Southland, New Zealand) (total land area)
Stewart Island, New Zealand's third-largest island measures 648.70 square miles. Eighty-five percent of the Island, or about 540.50 square miles, is Rakiura National Park, which opened in 2002.
It's about four-and-a-half times as big as Hilton Head
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The size of Hilton Head is about 42.0319 square miles.
(a.k.a. Hilton Head Island) (South Carolina)
Hilton Head Island measures 42.0311 square miles in total land area. The island (and city of the same name) is located in the Atlantic Ocean and is known as popular vacation destination.
It's about four-and-a-half times as big as Disney World
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The size of Disney World is about 39 square miles.
(a.k.a. Walk Disney World Resort, a.k.a. Walt Disney World, a.k.a. WDW) (Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida) (total site)
Disney World currently occupies 39 square miles. Part of the former total area of 46.30 square miles now comprises the Disney planned community of Celebration, Florida.
It's about one-fifth as big as Cape Town
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The size of Cape Town is about 950.20 square miles.
(a.k.a. Kaapstad, a.k.a. iKapa, a.k.a. The Mother City) (Western Cape, South Africa) (for Cape Town metro area)
Cape Town, South Africa's legislative capital, measures 950.20 square miles in total metro area. The core of Cape Town lies at the base of Table Mountain (a.k.a. Huriǂoaxa, a.k.a. Tafelberg), a 1,084.6 m peak.
It's about six-and-a-half times as big as Coron Island
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The size of Coron Island is about 27 square miles.
(Calamian Islands, Palawan, Philippines)
A popular tourist destination, Coron Island, measures about 27 square miles in total area. The rocky offshore area of the island makes it popular for shipwreck diving, with some wrecks as shallow as 10 ft. under the water.
It's about one-fifth as big as Yosemite National Park
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The size of Yosemite National Park is about 1,168.680 square miles.
(Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera counties, California, near Mariposa, California) (total land area)
Famous for its granite cliffs and Giant Sequoia groves, Yosemite National Park is 1,168.680 square miles in total area, of which 80.30920 square miles is the well-known Yosemite Valley. The Park is known as the home of Yosemite Falls — the highest waterfall in North America and sixth highest in the world at 739 m (2,420 ft)
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