Knoxville, Tennessee is 18% larger than Queens (NYC borough).
Area: 332 km2 calculated
Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County. The city had a population of 178,874 as of the 2010 census and an estimated population of 183,270 in 2013, making it the state's third largest city. Wikipedia
Area: 282 km2 calculated
Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City, geographically adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island. Wikipedia