St. Petersburg, Florida is 2.8 times larger than Manhattan (NYC borough).
Area: 59 km2 calculated
Manhattan is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coterminous with New York County, an original county of the U.S. state of New York. Wikipedia
Area: 166 km2 calculated
St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2013 census estimate, the population was 249,688, making St. Petersburg the 5th most populous city in the state of Florida and the largest city in Florida that is not a county seat. St. Wikipedia