Talk:Istana Nurul Iman
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[edit] Light Bulbs
How can he have 100,000 chandeliers but only 51,000 lightbulbs???
That would also be an average of more than 55 chandeliers per room. Also given the price given of construction if each chandelier cost $4,000 it would account for the total cost of construction. This is obviously an incorrect figure.
This has been corrected back to its original form which correctly stated that there are 564 chandeliers. I am thus removing the dispute indicator.
[edit] Impossible stats
I've been to Versailles and the Royal Palace in Madrid, and there is absolutely no way the latter is two and a half times larger. Olborne 15:53, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
The official website of the palace is in spanish but verifies the size of the Royal Palace of Madrid as 135,000 m² which converts to 1,453,122 square feet. See http://www.patrimonionacional.es/preal/preal.htm. The size of Versaille has been directly verified by the palace's press office as 51,210 m² which converts to 551,218 square feet. Therefore the dispute indicator will be removed.
Yes this is odd, Versailles is massive and by far much larger than the Royal palace of Madrid and Buckingham palace, I mean all you need to do is go to google earth and you can see how large Versailles is. I think that there is some sort of counting error because Versailles is much bigger than those other palaces. User:Daniel_Chiswick 26 March, 2007
I've read that the palace of Versailles is the largest in the world. Of course, the definition of "palace" is rather loose. Technically, Buckingham Palace is larger than the Istana Nural Iman. The Forbidden City is not nearly as large as Versailles, but Versailles is large enough to be its own city, while the Forbidden "City" is less of a palace and more like a series of governmental buildings, few of which are very large. If I had to answer this question with one word, it would be "Versailles."
First, Google Earth only shows you the footprint. It can't show you how many floors there are or how much space is underground. Secondly, unless there are documented facts that contradict the documented facts in the article, personal perception is not sufficient to warrant a dispute. You're attempting to challenge the facts as stated by the most official sources possible. If the official press offices of these palaces state they are a particular size, and it so happens that the the officially stated floor area of Buckingham is more than the officially stated floor area of Versailles, what is to be done? Should verified facts in the article be changed because a tourist senses one is bigger, or because another tries to draw a comparison based on an aerial view from Google Earth? Come on people. This encyclopedia needs to be based in official facts and not hunches. Otherwise, it lends credence to all the critics.
[edit] Added the coordinates.
I've always been curious, I figure it will save others from having to hunt around. --Bobak 06:45, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
