Situated in the center of Romania's capital, the building has a floor area of 365,000 square meters and ranks first in the world in terms of administrative buildings and third in terms of volume in the World Book of Records. The Parliament Palace is the heaviest and most expensive building in the world, using 1,000,000 cubic meters of marble and 3,500 tons of crystal. Its interiors are decorated with 2,800 chandeliers and 220,000 square meters of carpets.