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Disney Facts: How big is the World?
So exactly how big is the Walt Disney World Resort? Covering 40 square miles, it is about the size of San Francisco or two Manhattan islands. Of the more than 25,000 acres, less than 35 percent has been developed with a quarter designated as a wilderness preserve. Nearly 12 percent of the property, an area equivalent to nearly 3,000 football fields, is devoted to gardens and maintained landscapes.
To keep the resort running it takes about 62,000 employees making the resort the largest single-site employer in the U.S. And to keeping everything clean is a huge task. According to the Walt Disney Co., if you were to wash and dry one load of laundry every day for 52 years, you’d clean as much as the folks at Walt Disney World Laundry do in a single day. An average of 285,000 pounds of laundry is done each day and up to 32,000 garments are dry-cleaned daily.
To get all the guests around more than 270 Walt Disney World buses are used. The only cities in Florida with larger bus fleets are the cities of Miami and Jacksonville.
