City size comparison

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Houston is about 1.2 times smaller than Jacksonville.

Jacksonville (map shows its 197 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 1,935 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 85.7% the size of Jacksonville.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Jacksonville vs. Houston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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