The World's Largest Cemetery Has Over 5 Million Bodies Spanning Over 1,400 Years

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The largest cemetery in the world, Wadi as-Salaam, has buried people for more than 1,400 years.

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From ancient prophets to soldiers of the Iraq War, more than 5 million people here have been buried in the last 1,400 years. There are cities around this world with fewer living people than this place of the dead. Along with a sacred place in Iraq, an ancient cemetery is the site of the last resting place of millions of people. It extends for more than 9.17 km2, something like 42 times the area of the cemetery of the Upper St. John in Lisbon — t…

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On the outskirts of the holy city of Najaf in Iraq lies Wadi-us-Salaam, the largest cemetery in the world, where more than five million people are buried.