City size comparison

compared to

Chapel Hill is about 2.1 times smaller than San Francisco.

San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, while Chapel Hill is approximately 56 sq km, making Chapel Hill 46.44% the size of San Francisco.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of San Francisco vs. Chapel Hill uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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