City size comparison

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London is about 78 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while London (including the 32 boroughs of greater London) is approximately 1,572 sq km, making London 1.29% the size of New York.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. London uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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