City size comparison
compared to
Houston is about 2.8 times bigger than Chicago.
Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 181% larger than Chicago.
This to-scale comparison of
Chicago
vs.
Houston
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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