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 75,372 notable interments are drawn from Wikidata's open records and linked to their sources. 11,526 resting places of public figures are individually documented.

The most documented resting places

• Arlington National Cemetery
  Arlington County, United States · est. 1854 · 3653 notable interments
• Père Lachaise Cemetery
  20th arrondissement of Paris, France · est. 1804 · 2389 notable interments
• Novodevichy Cemetery
  Khamovniki District, Russia · est. 1524 · 1451 notable interments
• Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
  Glendale, United States · est. 1906 · 1301 notable interments
• Springvale Botanical Cemetery
  Springvale, Australia · est. 1901 · 1140 notable interments
• Green-Wood Cemetery
  Brooklyn, United States · est. 1838 · 1091 notable interments
• Montparnasse Cemetery
  14th arrondissement of Paris, France · est. 1824 · 1037 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

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.