How big is Second Life?

[Pim Peccable]

How many places are there?

[Dick Spad]

Way too many to count ......

[Boroondas Gupte]

How many places are there?

What would you count as one 'place'? A region? A parcel?

 

To get an overview over the land masses of Second Life, just see yourself (I wouldn't try to count them this way, though):

• View the map:
  • If inworld, click the 'Map' button at the lower end of the screen or press ctrl-m
  • alternatively, surf to http://maps.secondlife.com
• Zoom all the way out:
  • using your scroll wheel
  • or the sliders or / buttons

[Irene Muni]

In May 16 2009, Second Life has 27,483 regions.

The date was offered by M J Linden in this blog. See https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/land/blog/2009/05/15/land-expo-2009

[AnaVictoria Morales]

To me a "place" is an entire 256 x 256 meter sim or region. According the Land Expo blog there are 27,483 sims in the continents. New regions are being added all the time.

[Lexie Linden]

No additional response from question author in 60 days. Marked assumed answered.

[Daniel Voyager]

UPDATE: November 8th 2009.

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29, 453...thats ( 23, 850 private estates & 5, 603 Linden owned)

 

http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=296275&page=15&pp=30&highlight=regions