City size comparison

compared to

Boston is about 20 times smaller than Cape Town.

Cape Town is approximately 2,455 sq km, while Boston is approximately 124 sq km, making Boston 5.05% the size of Cape Town.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cape Town vs. Boston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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