City size comparison

compared to

Houston is about 243 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 0.41% the size of California.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of California vs. Houston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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