Correction for the size of The Forbidden City
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How big is 0.250 square miles?
It's about nine-tenths as big as The Forbidden City
The size of The Forbidden City is about 0.290 square miles.
(a.k.a. Forbidden Palace, a.k.a. Purple Forbidden City, a.k.a. Zijin Cheng, a.k.a. Zǐjinchéng, a.k.a. 紫禁城) (Beijing, China)
The imperial palace complex of the Forbidden City consists of 980 buildings covering 0.290 square miles. The City was the home of Chinese Emperors and their cabinets from its construction in 1420 until the fall of the last ruling dynasty in 1912.