Beltway 8 vs. huge land formations

Beltway 8 vs. huge land formations: Mapping tool lets you realize its enormity



Houston's Beltway 8 is really, really big, according to a series of viral maps featuring Houston's other, bigger loop set on top of other cities as a size comparison.

Of course, Houstonians already know how big it is. We've all spent time stuck in our cars on the 88-mile belt, either on its feeders or on the Sam Houston Tollway itself, the parts we have to pay tolls for still. No wonder we love our cars so much.

Using the MAPfrappe Google Map application, you can see that Beltway 8 could cover most Manhattan, plus Queens, Brooklyn, most of Staten Island, and even a great deal of New Jersey's eastern side. About two Beltways could cover the state of Rhode Island. On the West Coast, the Beltway can cover San Francisco, Oakland, and most San Fransisco Bay.

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