New York City is 12% larger than Singapore.
Area: 784 km2 calculated
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Wikipedia
Area: 697 km2 World Factbook
Population: 5,567,301 (July 2014) World Factbook
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and is 137 kilometres north of the equator. Wikipedia