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What is the area of Tiananmen Square?
The area of Tiananmen Square is 4400 hectares.

Tiananmen Square is located in Chang 'an Avenue, and the ground is all paved with light-colored granite strips after special processing. Tiananmen Square starts from Tiananmen Square in the north, ends at Zhengyangmen in the south, ends at the History Museum in the east and ends at the Great Hall of the People in the west, which can accommodate 6,543,800 people for a grand gathering.

Tiananmen Square, located in the center of Chang 'an Avenue, was the front yard of the imperial city in Ming and Qing Dynasties, with an original area of about 1 10000 square meters. 1959 The red walls on both sides of the square were demolished, and the area increased to150,000 square meters. 1976 has been expanded to the present scale, with a length of 880m from north to south and a width of 500m from east to west, with a total area of 440,000 square meters, which can accommodate 6,543,800 people at the same time. It is the largest city square in the world at present.

The development course of Tiananmen area

Before the renovation, Tiananmen Square was T-shaped. It was the place where the Ming and Qing Dynasties held important celebrations and issued decrees to the whole country. It represents the dignity of the emperor. Because the central axis of Chang 'an Avenue passes through here, ordinary people can't enter here at all, which also makes it full of mystery in the Ming and Qing Dynasties for more than 500 years.

Tiananmen Square is the largest city square in the world, with a length of 880 meters from north to south and a width of 500 meters from east to west. It covers an area of 440,000 square meters and can accommodate 6,543,800 people. However, the Tiananmen Square you see now is the deformed shape of 1958. Tian 'anmen Square in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was small and forbidden to ordinary people.