The two cities are about equally populous, but Memphis may be slightly larger, and definitely larger in geographic area (324 square miles to Boston's 48 square miles).
If the entire metropolitan area is compared, Greater Boston has more than 3 times the population.
The 2014 population for the city of Boston proper shows 655,844 residents. (about 1/10 of MA state)
The 2014 population for Memphis was 656, 861 (also about 1/10 of the TN state population).
Greater Boston has some 4.5 million residents. Metropolitan Memphis, being suburban and rural, has only about 1.3 million residents.
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