Correction for the size of The Forbidden City
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How big is 5,562,836 square perches?
It's about 200 times as big as The Forbidden City
The size of The Forbidden City is about 29,000 square perches.
(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 29,000 square perches. 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.