City size comparison

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Boston is about 3.1 times smaller than Birmingham.

Birmingham (map shows its 87 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 381 sq km, while Boston is approximately 124 sq km, making Boston 32.55% the size of Birmingham.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Birmingham vs. Boston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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