City size comparison

compared to

Boston is about 1.6 times smaller than Oakland.

Oakland (map shows its 131 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 202 sq km, while Boston is approximately 124 sq km, making Boston 61.39% the size of Oakland.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Oakland vs. Boston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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