City size comparison

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Chicago is about 10 times bigger than Chapel Hill.

Chapel Hill is approximately 56 sq km, while Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, making Chicago 950% larger than Chapel Hill.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chapel Hill vs. Chicago uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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