Boston
232 km²
Santiago
838 km²
USA
Chile
Area Comparison
Boston is 3.6x smaller than Santiago
Population Comparison
Boston has 9.2x fewer people than Santiago
Yes — Santiago is 3.6x larger than Boston by area. Santiago spans 838 km² (324 mi²) while Boston covers 232 km² (90 mi²) — a difference of 606 km². You could fit Boston inside Santiago approximately 3 times.
To put Boston's size in perspective, its area of 232 km² is roughly the same size as Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Santiago at 838 km² is roughly the same size as Berlin.
Picture Boston another way: its area is large enough to fit about 32,000 American football fields, 110 times the area of Monaco, or 68 times the area of Central Park. Santiago works out to about 117,000 American football fields, 14 times the area of Manhattan, or 8 times the area of Paris.
Boston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. Boston has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia.
Known as "Beantown", Boston covers 232 km² with a population of 0.7 million. The city was established in 1630. Boston is known for Fenway Park, Freedom Trail, Harvard University, among other attractions. The city's main transit system is the MBTA (The T).
Boston covers just 125 km2 yet serves as the cultural and financial heart of all New England
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. Located in the Chilean Central Valley within the Santiago Basin, between the Andes to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range to the west, it anchors the Santiago Metropolitan Region and its conurbation of Greater Santiago, which comprises more than forty communes and concentrates over a third of the national population and around 45% of Chile's GDP.
Often called "Santiago de Chile", Santiago has an area of 838 km² and is home to 6.3 million people. Its history stretches back to 1541. Visitors come for Cerro San Cristóbal, Gran Torre Santiago, Plaza de Armas, and much more.
Santiago sits in the Chilean Central Valley between the Andes and the Coastal Range, anchoring over a third of Chile's population.
Boston has a population density of 2,931 people per km² — a moderately dense city. Santiago, with 7,470 people per km², is a densely populated city. Santiago is noticeably denser, packing 2.5 times more people per square kilometer.
Size Ratio
Boston fits inside Santiago ~3 times
Density Gap
Santiago is 2.5x more densely populated
Boston covers 232 km². Cities with a similar urban footprint include Osaka (225 km²), Kuala Lumpur (243 km²), Amsterdam (219 km²), Helsinki (214 km²), or Edinburgh (259 km²).
Santiago covers 838 km². Cities with a similar urban footprint include Kyoto (828 km²), Berlin (892 km²), New York (783 km²), Hamburg (755 km²), or Bangalore (741 km²).
The straight-line distance from Boston to Santiago is 8,428 km (5,237 miles), with an estimated flight time of ~10h 25m.
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