City size comparison
compared to
Los Angeles is about 1.4 times smaller than Houston.
Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, while Los Angeles (including the city proper only) is approximately 1,215 sq km, making Los Angeles 73.23% the size of Houston.
This to-scale comparison of
Houston
vs.
Los Angeles
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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