Chapel Hill is about 26 times smaller than Saint Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg is approximately 1,439 sq km, while Chapel Hill is approximately 56 sq km, making Chapel Hill 3.9% the size of Saint Petersburg.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Saint Petersburg vs. Chapel Hill uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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