Reporter's Notebook: Royal Real Estate
The Forbidden City is 720,000 square meters (nearly 2.6 million square feet, or more than half the size of Minnesota's Mall of America). On its grounds are more than 800 buildings. The walls surrounding the complex are more than 30 feet high. Read on... 
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