City size comparison

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Houston is about 1.5 times smaller than Cape Town.

Cape Town is approximately 2,455 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 67.57% the size of Cape Town.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cape Town vs. Houston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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