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Chapel Hill

Scenic and regularly decked out in "Carolina blue", Chapel Hill is a lovely college town in that makes up the westernmost point of the .
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  • Type: City with 62,000 residents
  • Description: town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Chapel Hill, NC” and “Chapel Hill, North Carolina”
  • Postal codes: 27514-27516 and 27599

Places of Interest

Highlights include Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and Ackland Art Museum.

Museum
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is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a unit of the university, Morehead receives about one-third of its funding through state sources, one-third through ticket and gift sales, and one-third through gifts and grants.

Museum
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The is a museum and academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded through the bequest of William Hayes Ackland to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Stadium
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is a college football stadium located on Stadium Drive in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Opened in 1927, it is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's football team, which competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carrboro and Collins Crossing.

Town
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is a town in in the U.S. state of . The population was 21,295 at the 2020 census. The town, which is part of the combined statistical area, was named after North Carolina industrialist Julian S.

Neighborhood
Formerly Abby Court, and previously Old Well, is a complex of over 300 residences in North Carolina. Formerly advertised as a complex of “condominiums,” however only a few units, 63 to be exact, are still privately owned.

Suburb
is a 312-acre of retail, office, and civic space. was the top selling neighborhood in the Triangle market from 1999 to 2001.

Chapel Hill

Latitude
35.9132° or 35° 54′ 47″ north
Longitude
-79.0558° or 79° 3′ 21″ west
Population
62,000
Elevation
486 feet (148 metres)
Inception
1819
United Nations Location Code
US CHE
Open location code
8772WW7V+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157619192
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4460162
Wiki­data ID
Q671812
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chapel Hill” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشابل هيل، كارولاينا الشمالية”
  • Arabic: “تشابل هيل”
  • Armenian: “Չեյփել Հիլ”
  • Basque: “Chapel Hill”
  • Belarusian: “Чапел-Хіл”
  • Bulgarian: “Чапъл Хил”
  • Catalan: “Chapel Hill”
  • Cebuano: “Chapel Hill”
  • Chechen: “Чапел-Гилл”
  • Chinese: “Chapel Hill”
  • Chinese: “教堂山”
  • Czech: “Chapel Hill”
  • Dagbani: “Chapel Hill”
  • Danish: “Chapel Hill”
  • Dutch: “Chapel Hill”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشابل هيل, كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشابل هيل”
  • Esperanto: “Chapel Hill”
  • French: “Chapel Hill”
  • Georgian: “ჩაპელ-ჰილი”
  • German: “Chapel Hill”
  • Gilaki: “چپل هيل (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “چپل هيل”
  • Greek: “Τσάπελ Χιλ”
  • Haitian: “Chapel Hill, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אפל היל”
  • Hungarian: “Chapel Hill”
  • Indonesian: “Chapel Hill, North Carolina”
  • Indonesian: “Chapel Hill”
  • Irish: “Chapel Hill, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Chapel Hill”
  • Italian: “Chapel Hill”
  • Japanese: “チャペル・ヒル”
  • Japanese: “チャペルヒル”
  • Kazakh: “Чапел-Хилл”
  • Korean: “채플힐”
  • Ladin: “Chapel Hill”
  • Lithuanian: “Čapel Hilis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chapel Hill”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chapel Hill”
  • Moksha: “Чапэл-Гилл”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chapel Hill”
  • Norwegian: “Chapel Hill”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chapel Hill”
  • Persian: “چپل هیل”
  • Polish: “Chapel Hill”
  • Portuguese: “Chapel Hill”
  • Romanian: “Chapel Hill, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Chapel Hill”
  • Russian: “Чапел-Хилл”
  • Serbian: “Чапел Хил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chapel Hill, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chapel Hill”
  • Silesian: “Chapel Hill”
  • Slovak: “Chapel Hill”
  • Slovenian: “Chapel Hill”
  • Spanish: “Chapel Hill (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Chapel Hill”
  • Swahili: “Chapel Hill, North Carolina”
  • Swahili: “Chapel Hill”
  • Swedish: “Chapel Hill”
  • Tatar: “Чапел-Гилл”
  • Thai: “แชเปิลฮิลล์”
  • Turkish: “Chapel Hill, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Chapel Hill”
  • Ukrainian: “Чапел-Гілл (Північна Кароліна)”
  • Ukrainian: “Чапел-Гілл”
  • Urdu: “چیپل ہل، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Chapel Hill”
  • Volapük: “Chapel Hill”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chapel Hill, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chapel Hill”
  • Welsh: “Chapel Hill, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Chapel Hill”
  • Wu Chinese: “教堂山（北卡罗来纳州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “教堂山”
  • Yue Chinese: “教堂山”

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