City size comparison

compared to

Long Beach is about 13 times smaller than Houston.

Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, while Long Beach is approximately 131 sq km, making Long Beach 7.91% the size of Houston.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Houston vs. Long Beach uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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