How many blocks wide is a Minecraft world?

Gaming hard Data from 2024

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Answer in blocks. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

60,000,000 blocks

Roughly 60M.

A Minecraft world is 60 million blocks across, about 3.6 billion square kilometres — roughly seven times the surface area of Earth. Walking from the centre to the edge in-game would take around 800 hours of real time.

Where this number comes from

Source Mojang Studios technical documentation
Figure refers to 2024
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