Green-Wood has a population of about 560,000 souls.
So, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at comparable city populations.
According to the 2010 census, Green-Wood’s population is larger than that of any of these cities: Albuquerque, Tucson, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach, Mesa, Virginia Beach, Atlanta, Colorado Springs, Omaha, Raleigh, Miami, Clevelant, Tulsa, Oakland, Menneapolis, Wichita, and New Orleans.
In fact, if Green-Wood were a city, it would be the 33rd largest city in America.
That’s pretty big.
Great article!..For those who are interested with the ”populations” of historical necropolises,here are some figures:
The largest necropolises ”Cities of the Dead” by number of interred in the Western world (excluding the Catacombs of Paris used as an ossuary for the skeletal remains of 6 million people)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna – Austria (over 3 million interments)
Almudena Cemetery, Madrid – Spain (almost 5 million residents -with exhumations to expand the burial site,so Zentralfriedhof of Vienna makes it the largest of Europe with permanent graves)
Calvary Cemetery, New York City – USA (3 million + )
Cementerio General Recoleta, Santiago – Chile (over 2 million interments)
Olsany Cemetery, Prague – Czech Republic (over 2 million interments)
Ohlsdorf Cemetery,Hamburg – Germany (1.4 million people)
Cemitério de Vila Formosa, Sao Paulo – Brazil (around 1,5 million)
Bródno Cemetery,Warsaw – Poland (more than 1.2 million burials)
Père Lachaise Cemetery,Paris – France (over 1 million)
Stare Powązki Cemetery,Warsaw, – Poland (over 1 million)
Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney – Australia (1 million)
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Montreal – Canada (1 million burials)
PS: Forgot to add ”Glasnevin Cemetery” in Dublin, Ireland with 1,5 million burials..