How big is 496,000 dunams?
It's about half as big as San Antonio
The size of San Antonio is about 1,056,000 dunams.
(Texas)
The second-largest city in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States as of 2009, San Antonio measures 1,056,000 dunams in total area. The city is known for its tourist attractions, including the Alamo Mission and the annual San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.
It's about two times as big as Abel Tasman National Park
The size of Abel Tasman National Park is about 225,300 dunams.
(Tasman District, South Island, New Zealand)
New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park measures about 225,300 dunams 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 7,900 dunams.
It's about two-fifths as big as Los Angeles
The size of Los Angeles is about 1,215,000 dunams.
(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 1,215,000 dunams 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 two-fifths as big as Phoenix
The size of Phoenix is about 1,230,000 dunams.
(Arizona)
The capital of and largest city in Arizona and fifth-largest city in the United States as of 2009, Phoenix measures 1,230,000 dunams in total area. The city is known as an economic and cultural center of the American Southwest.
It's about one-third as big as Wellington
The size of Wellington is about 1,388,000 dunams.
(Te Whanganui-a-Tara) (New Zealand) (Wellington metro area)
The capital of New Zealand, Wellington covers 1,388,000 dunams 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 three times as big as Washington, D.C.
The size of Washington, D.C. is about 177,000 dunams.
(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 177,000 dunams 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-third as big as Delihi
The size of Delihi is about 1,483,000 dunams.
(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 1,483,000 dunams. Delhi has one of the highest road densities in the country of India, with 29,648 km of roads.
It's about one-third as big as Houston
The size of Houston is about 1,501,000 dunams.
(Texas)
The largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest city in the United States as of 2009, Houston measures 1,501,000 dunams 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 three-tenths as big as London
The size of London is about 1,579,000 dunams.
(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 1,579,000 dunams. 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 three-tenths as big as Stewart Island
The size of Stewart Island is about 1,680,000 dunams.
(a.k.a. Rakiura) (Southland, New Zealand) (total land area)
Stewart Island, New Zealand's third-largest island measures 1,680,000 dunams. Eighty-five percent of the Island, or about 1,400,000 dunams, is Rakiura National Park, which opened in 2002.
It's about four-and-a-half times as big as Hilton Head
The size of Hilton Head is about 108,862 dunams.
(a.k.a. Hilton Head Island) (South Carolina)
Hilton Head Island measures 108,860 dunams 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 five times as big as Disney World
The size of Disney World is about 101,000 dunams.
(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 101,000 dunams. Part of the former total area of 120,000 dunams now comprises the Disney planned community of Celebration, Florida.
It's about one-fifth as big as Cape Town
The size of Cape Town is about 2,461,000 dunams.
(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 2,461,000 dunams 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 3,026,870 dunams.
(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 3,026,870 dunams in total area, of which 208,000 dunams 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 seven times as big as Coron Island
The size of Coron Island is about 71,000 dunams.
(Calamian Islands, Palawan, Philippines)
A popular tourist destination, Coron Island, measures about 71,000 dunams in total area. The rocky offshore area of the island makes it popular for shipwreck diving, with some wrecks as shallow as 10 ft. under the water.