Largest graveyard

[Meltdown]

Anyone might know where the world's largest graveyard might be any how many people are buried there?

Cheers

melt

[Kenn Hoekstra]

Crown Hill Cemetery (Indianapolis) is the largest cemetery in the U.S.

Don't know about the world, though...

Source:
www.jacksoncountynet.com/interesting.htm (http://www.jacksoncountynet.com/interesting.htm)

[Fortean]

The answer to your question depends upon its context, (size, gravesites, numbers buried, etc.).

In terms of modern cemeteries, I think the Ohlsdorfer Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany, would be the largest organized graveyard. Brookwood Cemetery, outside London, used to hold this distinction. If you are considering the number of dead, Auschwitz-Birkinau, in Poland, contains the ashes of about three million victims. The Great Wall of China is likewise said to be the world's largest graveyard, as are the A'Ali burial mounds in Bahrain and the Scythian burial mounds in the Khakassian republic, in Russia.

[Meltdown]

To me more specific I was looking for the the largest graveyard with single burial plots marked by a tombstone ( or memorial).

if that helps.

Melt

[Fortean]

Roughly, there are a million graves in more than four square kilometers.

www.gedenkboek.nl/bp/d/hamburg/ohlsdorf/ (http://www.gedenkboek.nl/bp/d/hamburg/ohlsdorf/)

[Indy Baby]

Colma, which is a small city just south of San Francisco, has only 1,100 residents yet 1.5 million dead folks in approximately 16 cemeteries. It is the only necropolis -- meaning that there are more dead residents there than living residents -- in the United States and perhaps the world. Practically the entire 2.2 mile city is one huge graveyard. I'm certain that city itself has better stats, contacts in links below. Now mind you, even though there are several graveyards in Colma owned by different owners, when taken as a whole, it's a whole lot of the taken. May not be what you were looking for, but thought it was worth throwing out to ya.

Here's some links:

City of the Silent - Tales from Colma
www.notfrisco.com/colmatales/ (http://www.notfrisco.com/colmatales/)

Inside Bay Area - Colma Stats
community.insidebayarea.c.../colma.asp (http://community.insidebayarea.com/almanac/colma.asp)

Do a Google search, but with only 1,100 people living, they don't have much of a Web presence. Dead people don't surf.

- Indy

[Meltdown]

Excellent - thanks all!!!

[hm]

Look at WW 1 and WW 2 graveyards as well, Verdun for example.

Ohlsdorf is indeed quite large, I live in Hamburg.

[pconsidine]

I would also offer Valhalla, NY, as a pretty damn big cemetary, whether it has any distinction such as largest or highest or anything like that. When I was a kid taking the train into NYC, I used to try to hold my breath passing the cemetary in Valhalla, only to realize that it took the train more than 4 minutes to pass it. I'm sure someone can do the math and figure out how big it is based on that, but it won't be me. :)