TIL the largest cemetery in the world is Wadi-us-Salaam in Iraq. It has 6 million bodies, covers 6.01 km2/2.32 sq mi of land and has been in use for at least 1400 years.

Flying Squid@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

TIL the largest cemetery in the world is Wadi-us-Salaam in Iraq. It has 6 million bodies, covers 6.01 km2/2.32 sq mi of land and has been in use for at least 1400 years.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 days ago

For anyone confused by the image, those are mostly crypts you’re seeing.

… to be buried at the cemetery, one has to be interred inside one of the shared crypts in the cemetery.

Here’s a picture with a bit more detail:

picture of wadi al-salaam graveyard picturing hundreds of above ground tombs, mostly only large enough for a single person's body. There is a path through the tombs receding into the distance

TIL the largest cemetery in the world is Wadi-us-Salaam in Iraq. It has 6 million bodies, covers 6.01 km2/2.32 sq mi of land and has been in use for at least 1400 years.

TIL the largest cemetery in the world is Wadi-us-Salaam in Iraq. It has 6 million bodies, covers 6.01 km2/2.32 sq mi of land and has been in use for at least 1400 years.

Wadi-us-Salaam - Wikipedia