Players who may not want to install additional Minecraft mods such as MCedit can use commands to clear large swaths of land from an area, even entire chunks, if they'd like. Chart New Territories with ...
Every world in Minecraft is pretty much infinite. Each world is divided into chunks that are 16 blocks wide, 256 blocks tall, and 16 blocks long. When fully filled, a chunk has 65,536 blocks in total.