City size comparison

compared to

Boston is about 5 times smaller than Jakarta.

Jakarta is approximately 662 sq km, while Boston is approximately 124 sq km, making Boston 18.73% the size of Jakarta.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Jakarta vs. Boston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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