Largest Palaces in the World by Floor Area
About This Dataset
Largest Palaces in the World by Floor Area
Palaces are measured by total floor area across all their buildings and wings, which is why complexes that grew over centuries dominate the ranking. This chart lists the largest palaces in the world by floor area in square metres.
Analysis
Hofburg Palace in Vienna is the largest palace in the world at 300,407 square metres, 1.23 times the 244,000 of Louvre Palace. The 12 palaces here cover 2,057,027 square metres between them. Most were extended repeatedly rather than built to a single plan, which is how they reached these sizes: the ranking rewards centuries of additions more than any one architect's ambition. The smallest palace on this chart, Quirinal Palace, still covers 110,000 square metres.
Key Findings
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Hofburg Palace leads in Floor area (square metres) with 300,407.
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Average Floor area (square metres): 171,419 · median: 146,500.
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Gap: Hofburg Palace is 2.7× larger than Quirinal Palace.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of largest palaces
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 12 observations
- Measure
- Floor area (square metres)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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