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SPATIAL ASPECTS World factbook by CIA describes the area of Slovenia (20,273 km2 ) as "slightly smaller than New Jersey". It is only 10 times bigger than the total world retail area (2.000 km2).Center of Ljubljana and shopping suburbia BTC City equals in the total area - 630.000m2. It is almost as big as the whole retail area of Greece (655.000 m2). BTC City was visited by 13 millions visitors in 2003 and 18 millions visitors in 2004, which is nine times population of Slovenia and almost 70 times population of entire city of Ljubljana. There were 214.442 tourists visiting Ljubljana in 2003. Total retail area in the Center occupies 15%, while in the BTC City it makes 20%. There is no living area in BTC city. Expansion of the retail area in the world can be seen through bizarre comparison between total retail area per person in the United States (2.9 m2) and a floor area per person in Pakistan (1.3 m2).
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