City size comparison

compared to

Houston is about 74 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 1.36% the size of New York.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Houston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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