New US Embassy in Baghdad: Size of Vatican City
The embassy complex — 21 buildings on 104 acres. The 5,500 Americans and Iraqis working at the embassy.
“Embassy Baghdad” will dwarf new U.S. embassies elsewhere, projects that typically cover 10 acres. The embassy’s 104 acres is six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York, and two-thirds the acreage of Washington’s National Mall.
Original cost estimates ranged over $1 billion, but Congress appropriated only $592 million in the emergency Iraq budget adopted last year.
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