City size comparison

compared to

Boston is about 2.8 times smaller than Portland.

Portland is approximately 346 sq km, while Boston is approximately 124 sq km, making Boston 35.86% the size of Portland.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Portland vs. Boston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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