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Moreover, the government of Abu Dhabi owns nearly all the undeveloped land in the emirate, and can choke supply to ensure that Saadiyat's 26 square kilometres (ten square miles) of building-space justifies the $3.3 billion price tag.But even if Saadiyat succeeds in a commercial sense, that will not make it a regional let alone a global financial centre.

The resulting explosion killed tens of thousands of people and destroyed about 4.7 square miles of buildings.

Nagoya was attacked again on the night of 18/19 March, and the B-29s destroyed 2.95 square miles of buildings.

Nevertheless 2.05 square miles of buildings were burnt out and no B-29s were lost to the Japanese defenses.

On 5 June, 473 B-29s struck Kobe by day and destroyed 4.35 square miles of buildings for the loss of 11 bombers.

Overall, the attacks in May destroyed 94 square miles of buildings, which was equivalent to one seventh of Japan's total urban area.

Of the 477 B-29s dispatched, 456 struck their targets and Hamamatsu, Kagoshima, Yokkaichi suffered extensive damage; overall 6.073 square miles of buildings were destroyed.

The raid caused a massive conflagration that overwhelmed Tokyo's civil defenses and destroyed 16 square miles of buildings, representing seven percent of the city's urban area.

The 454 B-29s that reached Yokohama struck the city's main business district and destroyed 6.9 square miles of buildings; over 1000 Japanese were killed.

The bomb was dropped at 10 58 am local time, and the resulting 20 kiloton explosion destroyed 1.45 square miles of buildings in the Urakami district.

Nevertheless, 458 heavy bombers and 27 P-51s reached the city and the bombardment killed 3,960 Japanese and destroyed 3.15 square miles of buildings.