How big is 140,000 feddans?
It's about half as big as Los Angeles
The size of Los Angeles is about 289,200 feddans.
(a.k.a. LA, a.k.a. City of Angels) (California)
The largest city in California and the sixth-largest city in the United States, Los Angeles measures 289,200 feddans in total area. The city is known as the "Entertainment Capital of the World" for its contributions to media, entertainment, and culture.
It's about half as big as Phoenix
The size of Phoenix is about 293,000 feddans.
(Arizona)
The capital of and largest city in Arizona and fifth-largest city in the United States as of 2009, Phoenix measures 293,000 feddans in total area. The city is known as an economic and cultural center of the American Southwest.
It's about two times as big as Edinburgh
The size of Edinburgh is about 62,800 feddans.
(a.k.a. Edinburgh, a.k.a. Dùn Èideann, a.k.a. Edinburgum) (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, measures 62,800 feddans. Edinburgh Castle, atop Castle Rock, is the centerpiece of the city and has been continuously-occupied for over 1,800 years.
It's about two-fifths as big as Wellington
The size of Wellington is about 330,400 feddans.
(Te Whanganui-a-Tara) (New Zealand) (Wellington metro area)
The capital of New Zealand, Wellington covers 330,400 feddans in total area. The Old Government Buildings, the former site of Kiwi government administration for over one-hundred years, is one of the largest wooden buildings in the world.
It's about two-fifths as big as Delihi
The size of Delihi is about 353,000 feddans.
(a.k.a. Dillī, a.k.a. Dillī, a.k.a. Dēhlī, formally National Capital Territory of Delhi) (India)
Delhi, the capital union territory of India, covers 353,000 feddans. Delhi has one of the highest road densities in the country of India, with 29,648 km of roads.
It's about two-fifths as big as Houston
The size of Houston is about 357,300 feddans.
(Texas)
The largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest city in the United States as of 2009, Houston measures 357,300 feddans in total area. The city is known for its broad corporate base, prominence in oilfield equipment, and for its port, which accepts more cargo than any other port in the United States.
It's about two-and-a-half times as big as Abel Tasman National Park
The size of Abel Tasman National Park is about 53,630 feddans.
(Tasman District, South Island, New Zealand)
New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park measures about 53,630 feddans in total area. The size of the park has increased over the years as donated parcels of land have been added to it, with the last expansion in 2008 adding 1,881 feddans.
It's about two-fifths as big as London
The size of London is about 375,900 feddans.
(a.k.a. Greater London) (London Region) (England, United Kingdom)
London, one of the most important global cities in the world, currently occupies a total area of 375,900 feddans. For more than one hundred years, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was the largest city in the world by population.
It's about one-third as big as Stewart Island
The size of Stewart Island is about 399,900 feddans.
(a.k.a. Rakiura) (Southland, New Zealand) (total land area)
Stewart Island, New Zealand's third-largest island measures 399,900 feddans. Eighty-five percent of the Island, or about 333,300 feddans, is Rakiura National Park, which opened in 2002.
It's about three-and-a-half times as big as Washington, D.C.
The size of Washington, D.C. is about 42,100 feddans.
(formally the District of Columbia, a.k.a. Washington, a.k.a. the District, a.k.a. DC) (United State)
The United States' capital and only federal district, Washington, D.C. is a 42,100 feddans area located between the states of Virginia and Maryland. Washington, D.C. is known as the center of each of the three branches of the United States federal government and as home to many of the nation's monuments, museums, and foreign embassies.
It's about one-fourth as big as Cape Town
The size of Cape Town is about 585,800 feddans.
(a.k.a. Kaapstad, a.k.a. iKapa, a.k.a. The Mother City) (Western Cape, South Africa) (for Cape Town metro area)
Cape Town, South Africa's legislative capital, measures 585,800 feddans in total metro area. The core of Cape Town lies at the base of Table Mountain (a.k.a. Huriǂoaxa, a.k.a. Tafelberg), a 1,084.6 m peak.
It's about one-fifth as big as Yosemite National Park
The size of Yosemite National Park is about 720,540 feddans.
(Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera counties, California, near Mariposa, California) (total land area)
Famous for its granite cliffs and Giant Sequoia groves, Yosemite National Park is 720,540 feddans in total area, of which 49,514 feddans is the well-known Yosemite Valley. The Park is known as the home of Yosemite Falls — the highest waterfall in North America and sixth highest in the world at 739 m (2,420 ft)
It's about five-and-a-half times as big as Hilton Head
The size of Hilton Head is about 25,914.40 feddans.
(a.k.a. Hilton Head Island) (South Carolina)
Hilton Head Island measures 25,913.90 feddans in total land area. The island (and city of the same name) is located in the Atlantic Ocean and is known as popular vacation destination.
It's about six times as big as Disney World
The size of Disney World is about 24,000 feddans.
(a.k.a. Walk Disney World Resort, a.k.a. Walt Disney World, a.k.a. WDW) (Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida) (total site)
Disney World currently occupies 24,000 feddans. Part of the former total area of 28,600 feddans now comprises the Disney planned community of Celebration, Florida.
It's about one-tenth as big as Rhode Island
The size of Rhode Island is about 952,587 feddans.
(a.k.a. The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a.k.a. RI) (United States)
The "Ocean State," Rhode Island measures 952,587 feddans in total area. Several large bays totaling 644,158 feddans make up 32.4% of its total area.