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Beijing's Forbidden City is the largest palace complex

Its walled compound in central Beijing covers roughly 720,000 square metres The palace was built between 1406 and 1420 for the Ming emperors and served as the imperial residence for nearly 500 years. Its 980 surviving buildings sit inside a walled rectangle about 961 metres long and 753 metres wide. The complex is surrounded by a moat 52 metres wide and is now the Palace Museum. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its walled compound in central Beijing covers roughly 720,000 square metres. The figure is taken from UNESCO, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.