City size comparison

compared to

Boston is about 986 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Boston is approximately 124 sq km, making Boston 0.1% the size of New York.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Boston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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