Does anyone know how large the Star Wars Galaxy is?

I know LFL gave an official size somewhere...can anyone tell me what it was? How many lightyears does it encompass?

 

according to shield of lies it's 120,000 light years across.

Current view of milky way's size is 50,000 parsecs, and 100 parsecs thick or 163,000 lightyears across and 326 parsecs thick.

 

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Galaxy
The galaxy successively governed by the Galactic Republic, Palpatine's Empire and the New Republic was a typical spiral galaxy consisting of several hundred billion stars. According to Lando Calrissian in Shield of Lies (p.39) the galactic disk is 120,000 light years in diameter. According to the musings of Boba Fett in Tales of the Bounty Hunters, there are of the order of a hundred billion star systems and twenty million intelligent species. A hundred billion star systems is typical of a galaxy of this size, and the total number of stars would be somewhat larger since a majority of stars are in binary or multiple systems.

According to Dark Empire there are over twelve million inhabited systems. Most other references are less specific, including only vague notions of "a thousand thousand worlds." In agreement with Grand Moff Tarkin's statement about the Empire's membership [A New Hope, p.116], The STAR WARS Roleplaying Game Second Edition [p.126] indicates over a million "member worlds", supplemented by "colonies, protectorates and governorships" amounting to "nearly fifty million systems." The member worlds presumably are the only ones directly represented in galactic institutions. The book also states that the total sapient population is only about 100 quadrillion beings, meaning 10^17 or 10^26 depending on whether the colloquial or traditional interpretation is used. This seems remarkably low (and is perhaps unrealistic) considering the number of worlds, and the resources of barren systems that can feed them.

-SW Tech Comms

 

There are over 200 billion stars in the milky way. Pretty much no way to tell how many star systems.

 

Hehe chissdude lives!

Oh yeah, thats really big! But how do they know the size if the UR remain unexplored?

 

For the same reason we know the size our galaxy, through mathamatics and measurments off of light and other factors.

 

I don't know why they don't move to another galaxy. I know it is far, but there are billions of stars in one galaxy, billions of galaxies in one universe and millions of universies. Plenty o room.

 

Actually there is only one universe. But possibly multiple diminsions.

 

Wait, the empire consisted of 50 million systems, yet there were only 12 million inhabited system. Something doesn't add up here.

 

this planet consists of hundreds of millions of square miles, but not all of them are inhabited. think of those uninhabited systems being like the mid west of america, or siberia of russia, or the australian outback or something.
plus you can't expect all 50 million of those systems to be habitable. in fact i think its pretty coincidental that 12 million are inhabitable.