List of cemeteries

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This list of cemeteries compiles notable cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, worldwide. Reasons for notability include their design, their history and their interments.

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[edit] Argentina

[edit] Australia

See also: Category:Burials at Waverley Cemetery
  • Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, (Sydney) - incorporates Botany Cemetery, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium and Pioneer Park (where headstones from early Sydney burial grounds have been relocated).
  • Karrakatta Cemetery, (Perth) - opened in 1899 north of the Swan River and closest to the Perth city centre.
See also: Category:Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery
  • Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - Proper name "The Brisbane General Cemetery" the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery opened in 1875, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists. Resting place of author Steele Rudd.
  • Island of the dead - Port Arthur, Tasmania - early convict graves, part of the old goal and convict reform settlement.
  • Fremantle Cemetery, (Perth) - opened 1898 south of the Swan River and city of Perth -
See also: Category:Burials at Fremantle Cemetery

[edit] Austria

[edit] Azerbaijan

  • Old Jugha, Julfa - Historically considered to have the largest number of Khachkars, carved memorial stones. It is the center of a controversy about Khachkar destruction.

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Brunei

[edit] Bulgaria

[edit] Canada

[edit] Manitoba

[edit] Newfoundland

[edit] Nova Scotia

[edit] New Brunswick

[edit] Quebec

[edit] Ontario

[edit] British Columbia

[edit] Alberta

[edit] Chile

[edit] People's Republic of China

[edit] Hong Kong

[edit] Macau

[edit] Colombia

[edit] Croatia

[edit] Czech Republic

[edit] Cuba

[edit] Denmark

[edit] Ecuador

[edit] El Salvador

[edit] Egypt

[edit] Estonia

Tallinn

Tartu

Pärnu

Paide

[edit] Finland

[edit] France

[edit] Foreign cemeteries

[edit] Germany

[edit] Bavaria (Bayern)

[edit] Berlin

[edit] Brandenburg

[edit] Hamburg

[edit] Lower Saxony

[edit] North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)

Cemetery for russian soldiers
Cemetery for russian soldiers

[edit] Rhineland-Palatinate

[edit] Saxony

[edit] Saxony-Anhalt

[edit] Schleswig-Holstein

[edit] Greece

[edit] Hungary

See also Category:Cemeteries in Hungary

[edit] Indonesia

[edit] Iran

[edit] Iraq

  • Wadi-us-Salaam, Najaf - one of the largest cemeteries in the world, containing approximately five million graves
  • Shuneziya, Baghdad - Burial place of saints and many pious personalities.

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Israel

[edit] Italy

[edit] Japan

[edit] Kenya

[edit] Latvia

Riga

[edit] Liberia

[edit] Lithuania

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Malta

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] Norway

[edit] Pakistan

Graves and Tombs at Chaukundi
Graves and Tombs at Chaukundi

[edit] Philippines