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> I did some quick math, and the 240k acres it says they own comes out to about 378 square miles, which if condensed down to a square would be 20 miles by 20 miles.

To put that in perspective though.. per Wikipedia, all of Manhattan is 22.7 square miles!

*mindblown*

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Indeed, the entire city of NY is only about 303 sq. miles (land area only), on which resides 8.5 million people.

Another stat I read said the median US plot size is 10861 sq. feet., so Gates owns very nearly 1 million times the square footage of the average property.

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