Is the Delhi Fort bigger than the Forbidden City Palace?

A quick Google search shows that the Forbidden City is 172 acres, whereas the Palace of Versailles is 17 acres. The Forbidden City is larger in physical size, as it is an entire city built for the royalty of China, whereas the Palace of Versailles was just a complex of buildings for the dukes and duchesses of France. read more

The title of "world's largest palace by area enclosed within the palace's fortified walls" is held by China's Summer Palace complex in Beijing, which covers an area of 720,000 square meters (178 acres). The 980 buildings of the Forbidden City have a combined floor space of 1,614,600 square feet (150,001 m 2) and contain roughly 9,000 rooms. read more