City size comparison

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Buffalo is about 1.2 times smaller than San Francisco.

San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, while Buffalo is approximately 105 sq km, making Buffalo 86.43% the size of San Francisco.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of San Francisco vs. Buffalo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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