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It's about half 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 half 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 two times as big as Detroit
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The size of Detroit is about 138.80 square miles.
(Michigan)
The largest city in Michigan as of 2009, Detroit measures 138.80 square miles in total area. The city is known for its automotive industry and its popular music legacies in the soul, hip hop, pop, and rhythm & blues genres
It's about two times as big as Philadelphia
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The size of Philadelphia is about 135.10 square miles.
(a.k.a. Philly, a.k.a. The City of Brotherly Love) (Pennsylvania)
The largest city in Pennsylvania as of 2009 and at one time the second-largest city in the British Empire, Philadelphia measures 135.10 square miles in total area. The city is known as a center of great historical importance and as the one-time capital of the United States.
It's about half 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 two-fifths 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 two-and-a-half times as big as Dublin
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The size of Dublin is about 122.60 square miles.
(a.k.a. Baile Átha Cliath) (Leinster, Ireland) (for metro Dublin City)
The city of Dublin and its surrounding metro areas measure 122.60 square miles. Dublin is home to the Spire of Dublin, a stainless steel monument built in 2003 that rises to 121.2 m in height.
It's about three times as big as Edinburgh
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The size of Edinburgh is about 102 square miles.
(a.k.a. Edinburgh, a.k.a. Dùn Èideann, a.k.a. Edinburgum) (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, measures 102 square miles. Edinburgh Castle, atop Castle Rock, is the centerpiece of the city and has been continuously-occupied for over 1,800 years.
It's about three-and-a-half 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 three-tenths 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 one-fourth 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)
It's about four 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 one-fifth as big as Rhode Island
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The size of Rhode Island is about 1,545.05 square miles.
(a.k.a. The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a.k.a. RI) (United States)
The "Ocean State," Rhode Island measures 1,545.05 square miles in total area. Several large bays totaling 1,044.790 square miles make up 32.4% of its total area.
It's about one-fifth as big as Kangaroo Island
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The size of Kangaroo Island is about 1,701 square miles.
(a.k.a. Karta) (state of South Australia, Australia)
Kangaroo Island, off the southern coast of Australia, measures 1,701 square miles in total area. The island is famous for its ligurian bee colonies, exporting over 100 tonnes of honey each year.
It's about one-fifth as big as Fort Bliss
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The size of Fort Bliss is about 1,750 square miles.
(near Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas)
Fort Bliss is the United States Army's second-largest installation with a total area of 1,750 square miles. It is known as the largest TRADOC (Training and Doctrine Command) site, the Army's largest maneuver area, and the country's largest contiguous tract of open airspace.
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