City size comparison

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Santa Barbara is about 2.5 times smaller than Boston.

Boston is approximately 124 sq km, while Santa Barbara is approximately 50 sq km, making Santa Barbara 40.71% the size of Boston.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Boston vs. Santa Barbara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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