City size comparison
compared to
San Francisco is about 1.5 times smaller than San Jose.
San Jose is approximately 180 sq km, while San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, making San Francisco 67.23% the size of San Jose.
Tip:
This to-scale comparison of
San Jose
vs.
San Francisco
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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