The world's burial grounds, documented

Resting Places is a reference directory of 2,443 cemeteries across 80 countries, treated as places and history. Locations, founding dates, heritage status, and 75,427 notable interments are drawn from Wikidata's open records and linked to their sources. 11,558 resting places of public figures are individually documented.

The most documented resting places

• Arlington National Cemetery
  🇺🇸 Arlington County, United States · est. 1854 · 3654 notable interments
• Père Lachaise Cemetery
  🇫🇷 20th arrondissement of Paris, France · est. 1804 · 2388 notable interments
• Novodevichy Cemetery
  🇷🇺 Khamovniki District, Russia · est. 1524 · 1452 notable interments
• Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
  🇺🇸 Glendale, United States · est. 1906 · 1295 notable interments
• Springvale Botanical Cemetery
  🇦🇺 Springvale, Australia · est. 1901 · 1141 notable interments
• Green-Wood Cemetery
  🇺🇸 Brooklyn, United States · est. 1838 · 1092 notable interments
• Montparnasse Cemetery
  🇫🇷 14th arrondissement of Paris, France · est. 1824 · 1049 notable interments
• Powązki Cemetery
  🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland · est. 1792 · 1013 notable interments

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Guides

• Cemeteries with the most documented notable interments
• The oldest documented cemeteries
• Historic garden cemeteries of the world
• Heritage-listed cemeteries
• National cemeteries and war grave sites

Learn and explore

Two ways to spend a few more minutes with what this directory has documented: a glossary of the cemetery and burial terms used throughout the site, from mausoleum to catacombs to heritage status, and a quiz built entirely from real, sourced cemetery and interment records, not invented trivia.

For researchers and machines

The full dataset behind this site is available as JSON: the cemetery index andthe complete interment graph, both derived from Wikidata under CC0. Crawl guidance lives in llms.txt.