City size comparison

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Lisbon is about 1.2 times smaller than Boston.

Boston is approximately 124 sq km, while Lisbon (map shows its 24 named neighbourhoods; the area covers the whole city) is approximately 100 sq km, making Lisbon 80.69% the size of Boston.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Boston vs. Lisbon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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