Google mapping the city of God

Eris - Discovered in 2005.

Using Google Map's measuring tool & Wikipedia I have tried to to visualise the scale of the New Jerusalem, the place described in the bible where people get to live with God. It is also referred to as the City of Zion (source: Revelation 21). 

I've compared it with both the continent of Australia and a planet in the solar system. Revelation says:

'The city lies in a square, its length being the same as its width. And he measured the city with his reed (rod)-12,000 stadia (about 1,500 miles) (2,400 kilometres); its length and width and height are the same.'

                                                                                             Revelation 21:16

The 12,000 stadia converts to 1,500 miles which converts to 2,400 kilometres. Remember the length is the same as its width so squaring 2400 kilometres produces a whopping area of 5,760,000 square kilometres. By Comparison the city of New York is approximately 8,600 square kilometres (source: citymayors.com). 

To visualize 5 million square kilometres, go to a map of Australia and begin in the Torres Strait directly above Cape York Peninsula. Extend south to the Medindie lakes area east of Broken Hill in New South Wales. Then turn west and go to Perth. From Perth go north to a point in the ocean just below Denpasar in Bali. Connect all the points and you have a rough square in which the city will fit.

The bible verse also says the city will have a height equal to that again (a square with sides 2400 km high). Wikipedia says that’s the same diameter as Eris, the new dwarf planet discovered in 2005. Images from the Hubble space telescope put the diameter of Eris at 2400 km, larger than that of Pluto.