I have been to the Forbidden city three times. Whenever someone comes to visit Beijing, China one of the first things they want to see is the Forbidden City. Below are some of the statistics that are mentioned on the tour.
9 Interesting facts about the Forbidden City Beijing, China
The city was built from 1406 to 1420.
The city consists of 980 buildings and covers 7,800,000 sq ft., but there is said to be 9,999 rooms.
The city housed emperors and their households for almost 500 years. The Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.
More than 1 million people worked on building the city.
During the Second Opium War the city was occupied by Anglo-French forces.
The walls are 26 feet high and surrounded by a 171 ft wide moat.
There are over 2,900 boxes of artifacts that are in the national Palace Museum in Taipei.Up until Chairmen Mao, no building could be built higher than the top of the Forbidden City.On display in the city are many backscratcher and other daily used objects.
At times there were up to 9,000 people living in the Forbidden City.
