City size comparison

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Chapel Hill is about 30 times smaller than Houston.

Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, while Chapel Hill is approximately 56 sq km, making Chapel Hill 3.39% the size of Houston.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Houston vs. Chapel Hill uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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