City size comparison

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Long Beach is about 1.4 times smaller than San Jose.

San Jose is approximately 180 sq km, while Long Beach is approximately 131 sq km, making Long Beach 72.92% the size of San Jose.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of San Jose vs. Long Beach uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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