City size comparison

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Chapel Hill is about 2.2 times smaller than Boston.

Boston is approximately 124 sq km, while Chapel Hill is approximately 56 sq km, making Chapel Hill 45.31% the size of Boston.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Boston vs. Chapel Hill uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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