I was having a discussion with someone recently on the largest cemeteries in Paris, and then I realized there was no thread about the largest cemeteries of the world. Or maybe there was one a long time ago?

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to start a "ghastly" thread about cemeteries in the world, and see where are the largest ones. Please list the largest cemeteries in your city. Try to provide sources so people can double-check your figures. Write the area of cemeteries both in hectares (ha) and in acres. For conversion: 1 hectare = 2.471 acres and 1 acre = 0.404686 hectare.

Here are the largest cemeteries in Paris to start with. The source is: http://www.paris.fr/portail/Parcs/Portal.lut?page_id=1702.

Paris cemetery of Pantin-Bobigny: 107 ha (264 acres)
Paris cemetery of Thiais: 103 ha (255 acres)
Paris cemetery of Bagneux: 61.5 ha (152 acres)
Paris cemetery of Père-Lachaise: 44 ha (109 acres)

Waiting for cemeteries in your city now... R.I.P.

The largest is Wadi al-Salam in Iraq.(1485.5 acres)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/images/najaf-cemetary_040810-a-6524c-001a.jpg

...I don't live there though.

Ottawa- 160 acres (Beechwood cemetery)
-wikipedia.com

I dont know but Colma, a small town just south of San Francisco is home to 1-2 thousand living people and is the burial place of 4-5 Million dead people.


creepy. :runaway:

The Rookwood Necropolis in Sydney is 283 hectares (707 acres).

800,000 people are buried there

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/02/14/shd_cemetery_wideweb__430x286,0.jpg

I was having a discussion with someone recently on the largest cemeteries in Paris, and then I realized there was no thread about the largest cemeteries of the world. Or maybe there was one a long time ago?

And then you decided to post this thread in Citytalk?
Perfectely logical!

Some ideas for other threads:

Largest aluminium pole in the world
Largest square which isn't really a square in the world
Largest wooden shack in the world...
Largest tent making factory in the world...
Largest artificial beach in the world...
Largest supplier of green crayons in the world...
Largest gumball machine in the world...
Largest heap of steaming elephant dung in the world...

Have fun...I won't...

I don't know but in Manila, there are a whole lot of cemeteries!!!

The Rookwood Necropolis in Sydney is 283 hectares (707 acres).

800,000 people are buried there

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/02/14/shd_cemetery_wideweb__430x286,0.jpg

creepy..

I dont know but Colma, a small town just south of San Francisco is home to 1-2 thousand living people and is the burial place of 4-5 Million dead people.


creepy. :runaway:

question.... is that the cemetry that is in the movie cruel intention? if soo its HUGEEEEEEEEEE n i kno that one was in or around SF

Here is the list of the cemeteries operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Goverment. The three largest are not in the city.

Tama - 128 ha
Yabashira - 105 ha
Kodaira - 65 ha
Aoyama - 26 ha
Zoshigaya - 11 ha
Yanaka - 10 ha
Somei - 7 ha

is that the cemetry that is in the movie cruel intention? if soo its HUGEEEEEEEEEE n i kno that one was in or around SF

I'm pretty sure that movie was set mostly/entirely in NYC. Do you remember a certain lesbian kiss in Central Park? :naughty:

Manila American Cemetery and War Memorial - The largest outside the US

http://www.abmc.gov/images/ml1w.jpg

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fmitchel/sloan/graveyard/FtMcKinleyWall.jpg

http://members.cox.net/ubaldo23fa-ps/Manila_American_Cemetery_walls.jpg

they occupy a great area :uh:

Cementerio de La Almudena, Madrid (Spain).

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/4653/0365yh.jpg

About 121 Ha.

Hey, SHiRO, is that the Copenhagen Stock Market building on your avatar? :D

Hey, SHiRO, is that the Copenhagen Stock Market building on your avatar? :D
:yes:

I always wanted to know if Ankara has got the biggest of the world.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2371/ankcemetvz7.jpg

I'm pretty sure that movie was set mostly/entirely in NYC. Do you remember a certain lesbian kiss in Central Park? :naughty:


ha yes i do.. but some of the landscape shots where set in sf ... i could b wrong tho

The largest one in Budapest is Új köztemető : 207 ha (511 acres), 1.5 million dead people.

Cementerio General, Santiago, Chile

2.500.000 people buried here, all chilean presidents are buried here.

http://www.subir-imagenes.com/subir-imagenes/909ff735ae.jpg

http://www.subir-imagenes.com/subir-imagenes/a87d8d1b2e.jpg

http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/9075/file20066291428229ge.jpg

http://www.cibermancia.com/cibermancia/images/cementerios/generaldeSantiagoChile/generaldeSantiagoChile18.jpg

[QUOTE=SHiRO]
Largest tent making factory in the world...
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that would be located in ReddAlert's Pants...Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.

Oak Ridge Cemetary, Springfield, Illinois. Second most visited cemetery in the U.S. (Arlington being number 1), and I believe the largest cemetery in Illinois at over 300 acres.



Burial place of Abraham Lincoln:
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/sites/tomb3.jpg

It also butts up against another cemetary, Calvary Cemetery (roughly 100 acres or so I believe),

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/sangamon/cemetery/calvary/stones/cal3.jpg

making a 400-500 acre area of continuous cemetery grounds.

On the other side of Springfield, there's the not as big, but quite impressive Camp Butler National Cemetery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Butler_National_Cemetery :

http://www.springfield-il.com/attract/images/butler1.jpg

As for the United States, the largest one is Rose Hill Cemetery in Whittier, California, at over 1,500 acres: http://www.rosehills.com/

The largest is Wadi al-Salam in Iraq.(1485.5 acres)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/images/najaf-cemetary_040810-a-6524c-001a.jpg

...I don't live there though.
Did they station troops there in case some dead terrorist decides to return from the dead?

Zentralfriedhof, Vienna (the sole really large one there, the rest are smaller district cementaries)

One of the very few cementeries I guess that were right from the start on multiconfessional (huge jewish part)

Size: 240 ha (about 600 acres)
Burried people: 3.3 million interred here.

I find the idea nice that alone at our largest cementary double as much peoples are burried as our city has citizens.

main entrance:
http://www.vorarlberger.net/Fruehjahr/Zentralfriedhof03/Fotos03/ZF1.JPG

cementary church:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Zentralfriedhof_Vienna_-_Dr._Karl_Lueger-Ged%C3%A4chtniskirche.JPG/800px-Zentralfriedhof_Vienna_-_Dr._Karl_Lueger-Ged%C3%A4chtniskirche.JPG


Is there any cementary with more burried people anywhere? Would be interesting...