City size comparison

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Houston is about 30 times bigger than Chapel Hill.

Chapel Hill is approximately 56 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 2,852% larger than Chapel Hill.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chapel Hill vs. Houston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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