City size comparison

compared to

Boston is about 3.1 times smaller than Raleigh.

Raleigh is approximately 391 sq km, while Boston is approximately 124 sq km, making Boston 31.72% the size of Raleigh.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Raleigh vs. Boston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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