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Construction of the largest embassy on Earth will shortly be completed in Iraq. ⇒

   26 March 2007, mid-morning

It cost a little over half a million billion dollars to make, and is about as big as Vatican city.

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  1. Excluding military installations, I’m wondering if this embassy will qualify as the largest plot of American soil east of the US Virgin Islands.

    by rishi on March 26 2007, 1:27 pm   #

  2. half a billion

    by haran on March 27 2007, 10:43 am   #

  3. Yes that’s right. Half a million would buy you a small house downtown.

    by ramanan on March 27 2007, 10:53 am   #

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