City size comparison

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Long Beach is about 9 times smaller than Los Angeles.

Los Angeles (including the city proper only) is approximately 1,215 sq km, while Long Beach is approximately 131 sq km, making Long Beach 10.8% the size of Los Angeles.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Los Angeles vs. Long Beach uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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