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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.

Argentina

Australia

  • Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - Proper name 'The Necropolis, Rookwood" at over 2.8 km², reputedly the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere if not the world, first used in 1867. More than 1,000,000 interments.
  • Cairns Pioneer Cemetery, (Cairns)(Queensland) (External Link)
  • Waverley Cemetery, (Sydney) - opened in 1877. Dramatic location on picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures such as writer Henry Lawson. 50,000 allotments.
  • 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.
  • 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 -
  • Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide - opened in 1936 during South Australia's centenary year.

    Austria

  • Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros wrote "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" for its centennial in 1974.
  • Kapuzinergruft, Vienna - Final resting place of over 140 members of the House of Habsburg
  • St. Marx Cemetery

    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.

    Belgium

  • Schoonselhof Cemetery in Antwerp
  • Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels
  • Laeken Cemetery in Brussels
  • Campo Santo in Ghent
  • Westerbegraafplaats in Ghent
  • Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres

    Brazil

  • Cemitério da Consolação, São Paulo - writer Mário de Andrade, Monteiro Lobato, painter Tarsila do Amaral, former Brazil's president Campos Sales
  • Cemitério do Morumbi, São Paulo - singer Elis Regina, F1 racer Ayrton Senna, actor and comedian Ronald Golias
  • Cemitério de Vila Formosa, São Paulo - the biggest cemetery in Latin America
  • Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. Santos Dumont, inventor of the airplane; Singer/Actress Carmen Miranda, composer Tom Jobim.

    Brunei

  • Makam Diraja
  • Tomb of Sharif Ali
  • Tomb of Sultan Bolkiah

    Canada

    Manitoba

  • St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Burial site of Louis Riel. Oldest graveyard in Western Canada.

    Newfoundland

  • Church of England Cemetery, St. John's.

    Nova Scotia

  • Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, amongst others.
  • Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS Titanic cemetery.
  • Mount Herman Cemetery, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
  • Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax

    New Brunswick

  • Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John. Final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley.

    Quebec

  • Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, (Formerly Sainte-Foy) Quebec City. Interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others.
  • Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montreal. Some of the notables buried here include Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harvey, Pierre Laporte.
  • Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. Final resting place for Sui Sin Far, Anna Leonowens, John Abbott, Mordecai Richler, Sir Arthur Currie, Molson family members, and others.
  • Mount Hermon Cemetery, (Formerly Sillery), Quebec City, Ireland Memorial. G.R. Renfrew, Peter Simons, Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière,
  • Irish Cemetery at Grosse-Ile, Grosse Ile, Quebec. Over 6000 immigrants (mostly Irish) who died while quarantined during the Great Famine of 1847. Largest Irish cemetery outside of Ireland.
  • National Field of Honour, Pointe-Claire, an official veteran's cemetery.

    Ontario

  • Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The burial site includes Sir Robert Borden, Tommy Douglas, Gen. Andrew McNaughton
  • Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. Interments here include Yousuf Karsh, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Aurel Joliat.
  • Hope Cemetery, Ottawa.
  • Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston. Final resting place of Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Alexander Campbell
  • Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Those interred here include Timothy Eaton, Frederick Banting, Glenn Gould, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and others.
  • Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto. The burial site for Margaret Anglin, Morley Callaghan, and King Clancy, amongst others.
  • Necropolis Cemetery, in Toronto. (Toronto Necropolis). The burial site of William Lyon Mackenzie, Ned Hanlon, and others. Monument to Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews.
  • Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Toronto. Includes the interment of Sir Henry Pellatt.
  • Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto. The final resting place of Harold Ballard, Conn Smythe, John Swietlinski, amongst others.
  • York Cemetery, in Toronto. The burial site of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and her husband Captain Kolikovsky, Tim Horton and others.

    British Columbia

  • Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. Final resting place of Sir James Douglas, Emily Carr, Billy Barker and Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the "Hanging Judge".
  • Mountain View Cemetery. The oldest cemetery in the City of Vancouver, it's the resting place of 145,000 people, including numerous notable figures in the city's history.

    Alberta

  • Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary. Final resting place of Owen Hart, a Professional wrestler and member of the prestigious Hart wrestling family, Dorothy Joudrie, Archibald Wilder, and Everett Johnson.

    Chile

  • Cementerio General de Chile in Santiago, Chile, is the burial place for all but one of Chile's deceased Presidents including Salvador Allende plus other notables such as singers Víctor Jara and Violeta Parra.

    People's Republic of China

  • Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain
  • Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia
  • Mawangdui at Changsha, Hunan
  • Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an
  • Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
  • Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing
  • Thirteen Imperial Mausoleums of Ming Dynasty Emperors, Beijing
  • Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Nanjing
  • Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing
  • Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng near Wuhan in Hubei province - probably best preserved funeral architecture of the Warring States Period
  • Tomb at Yinque at Linyi County, Shandong province
  • Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province

    Hong Kong

  • Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong
  • Gallant Garden is the cemetery for civil and public servants who died in service
  • Hong Kong Cemetery - The early western cemetery in the early colonial era of Hong Kong
  • Stanley Military Cemetery - Not only one of the major military cemeteries of Hong Kong, but also one of the last battlefields of Hong Kong Defence, 1941
  • Sai Wan War Cemetery - Most of the WWII of Hong Kong and East Asia Stage war deads are buried there

    Macau

  • Old Protestant Cemetery

    Colombia

  • Central Cemetery of Bogota - Houses several national heroes, poets and former Colombian presidents

    Croatia

  • Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb - the biggest cemetery in Croatia, one of the most beautiful and oldest in Europe
  • Municipal Cemetery in Varazdin

    Czech Republic

  • Sedlec ossuary - Kutná Hora
  • Old Jewish Cemetery - Prague
  • Olsany Cemetery, Prague - the biggest graveyard in the Czech republic
  • Vysehrad cemetery, Prague - the Czech Republic's most important cemetery, it's the burial site for Antonín Dvořák, Alfons Mucha and Bedřich Smetana, amongst others.

    Cuba

  • Cementerio Santa Ifigenia - Bacardi family, José Marti and many others

    Denmark

  • Roskilde Cathedral in the city of Roskilde is the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
  • Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen is the burial site for Danish notables such as Hans Christian Andersen and Niels Bohr as well as for several African-American jazz musicians.

    Ecuador

  • Cementerio General de Guayaquil

    Egypt

  • Great Pyramid of Giza
  • Saqqara
  • Valley of the Kings
  • City of the Dead, Cairo

    Estonia

    Tallinn
  • Kopli cemetery
  • Mõigu cemetery
  • Kalamaja cemetery
  • Hiiu-Rahu cemetery
  • Jewish cemetery
  • Liiva cemetery
  • Metsakalmistu cemetery
  • Pirita cemetery
  • Tõnismäe Monument
  • Tallinn Military Cemetery
  • Pärnamäe cemetery
  • Siselinna cemetery
  • Rahumäe cemetery Tartu
  • Pauluse cemetery
  • Puiestee cemetery
  • Raadi cemetery
  • Rahumäe cemetery Paide
  • Reopalu cemetery
  • Sillaotsa cemetery

    Finland

  • Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki

    France

  • Cimetière de Bagneux, Paris - burial place for Jean Vigo, Gribouille, Alfred Jarry and others.
  • Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris.
  • Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, burial place for Edith Wharton, Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and others.
  • Grand Jas Cemetery, Cannes - buried here are Lily Pons, Peter Carl Fabergé, Martine Carol and other celebrities
  • Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon
  • Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Edgar Degas, Heinrich Heine, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers. Émile Zola was initially buried here, but his remains were later moved to the Panthéon. His gravestone can still be seen here, however.
  • Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Man Ray. Pierre Laval and Porfirio Diaz are also buried here.
  • Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery
  • Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Émile Zola.
  • Cimetière de Pantin in Paris is the burial site of the singer Damia, and the Cancan dancer, known as La Goulue, and other notables.
  • Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.
  • Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of famous persons such as Colette, Baron Georges Haussmann, Eugène Delacroix, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Molière, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gertrude Stein, Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Pierre Desproges and Frédéric Chopin. Many French Holocaust victims are commemorated there.
  • Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.
  • Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where, on 24 May 1430, Joan of Arc was told to recant or face summary execution. Some of those buried here are the painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star Suzanne Lenglen.
  • Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  • Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as Arthur Honegger, Marcel Carné, Maurice Utrillo and others.

    Foreign cemeteries

  • Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery: Ivan Bunin, Rudolph Nureyev, Felix Yusupov, Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
  • Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
  • Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery

    Germany

    Bavaria (Bayern)

  • Bayreuth, Bayreuth Friedhof Burial site of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt and Jean Paul amongst others
  • Munich, Nordfriedhof Burial site of Peter Igelhoff and Paul Troost
  • Munich, Ostfriedhof. Burial site of Friedrich Hollaender, Rudolf Moshammer, Leni Riefenstahl and Barbara Valentin.
  • Munich, Südlichen Friedhof zu München. Burial site of Leo von Klenze and Karl Spitzweg.
  • Munich, Westfriedhof. Burial site of Alexandra, Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari and Ernst Röhm.
  • Nuremberg, Johanniskirchhof

    Berlin

  • Berlin - Charlottenburg, Friedhof Heerstraße, Burial site of Leo Blech, Karl Bonhoeffer, Horst Buchholz, Tilla Durieux, George Grosz, Maximilian Harden, Hilde Hildebrand, Joachim Ringelnatz and Grethe Weiser.(See )
  • Berlin - Charlottenburg, British War Cemetery, Heerstraße.(See )
  • Berlin - Kreuzberg, Holy Trinity Cemetery I Burial site of Fanny Hensel Felix Mendelssohn and Rahel Varnhagen (See: also Holy Trinity Cemetery II Burial site of Martin Gropius, Adolph von Menzel and Theodor Mommsen. (See )
  • Berlin - Kreuzberg, Jersusalem und Neue Kirche III Burial site of Adelbert von Chamisso and E.T.A. Hoffmann (See: ), also Friedhof IV der Gemeinde Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche Burial site of Rikard Nordraak. (See: )
  • Berlin - Kreuzberg, Luisenstädtischer Friedhof Burial site of Gustav Stresemann. (See )
  • Berlin - Lichtenberg, Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde. Burial site of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht.
  • Berlin - Mitte, Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof. Burial site of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, John Heartfield and Johannes Rau. (See )
  • Berlin - Schöneberg, Städtischer Friedhof III. Burial site of Marlene Dietrich and Helmut Newton.
  • Berlin - Schöneberg, Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin. Burial site of the Brothers Grimm. (See )
  • Berlin - Weißensee, Weißensee Cemetery. The largest old Jewish cemetery in Europe.
  • Berlin - Wilmersdorf, Friedhof Schmargendorf. Burial site of Max Pechstein.
  • Berlin - Zehlendorf, Städtischer Friedhof Berlin-Zehlendorf. Burial site of Heinrich George.
  • Berlin - Zehlendorf,, Dahlem Dorf. Burial site of Rudi Dutschke.
  • Berlin - Zehlendorf, Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Hüttenweg. Burial site of Gottfried Benn, Karl Hofer, Bernd Rosemeyer and Werner Sombart.
  • Berlin - Zehlendorf, Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf, Potsdamer Chaussee. Burial site of Willy Brandt, La Jana, Helmut Käutner, Julius Leber, Hildegard Knef, Erich Mühsam, Ernst Reuter and Renée Sintenis.
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    Brandenburg

  • Stahnsdorf near Berlin, Südwest-Kirchhof Stahnsdorf (Stahnsdorf Southwest Cemetery). Burial site of Rudolf Breitscheid, Lovis Corinth, Jean Kurt Forest, Joachim Gottschalk, Engelbert Humperdinck, Gustav Langenscheidt and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.

    Hamburg

  • Hamburg, Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf (Ohlsdorf Main Cemetery), with 4.05 km² largest cemetery on Earth. 1.280000 graves.
  • Hamburg, Hauptfriedhof Öjendorf (Öjendorf Main Cemetery)
  • Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Altona (Altona Jewish Cemetery)
  • Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Ohlsdorf (Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery)
  • Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Ottensen (Ottensen Jewish Cemetery)

    North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)

  • Cologne, Melaten

    Saxony

  • Herrnhut, the Hutberg Moravian Graveyard, God's Acre

    Saxony-Anhalt

  • Dessau, Neuer Begräbnisplatz
  • Halle, Stadtgottesacker
  • Magdeburg, Dom St. Mauritius & St. Katharina, Kathedrale St. Sebastian

    Schleswig-Holstein

  • Elmshorn, Jüdischer Friedhof (Elmshorn Jewish Cemetery)
  • Lübeck, Burgtor-Friedhof
  • Rendsburg, Garnisonsfriedhof

    Greece

  • Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Athens
  • First Cemetery of Athens - Cemetery in Central Athens, including the graves of many famous Greek politicians and celebrities like Melina Mercouri, Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou, George Seferis, Manos Hadjidakis.
  • Anastaseos tou Kyriou (Resurrection of Lord) - The biggest public cemetery of Greece. Located east of Thessaloniki.
  • Akrotiri, Chania, Crete - Venizelos' tombs. Burial site of the politician Eleftherios Venizelos.
  • Vergina, Pella - (Macedonian Tombs). Tomb of the ancient Macedonian King, Phillip II of Macedon.
  • Tatoi Royal Cemetery - Athens.
  • Mikra British Honorary Cemetery - Located in the municipality of Kalamaria, in Thessaloniki. The Memorial commemorates 478 nurses, officers and men of the Commonwealth forces who died when troop transports and hospital ships were lost in the Mediterranean, and who have no grave but the sea.
  • Skorpios Island, Ionian Sea - Burial site of 20th century's shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his daughter Christina Onassis.

    Hungary

  • Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest
  • Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest
  • List of cemeteries in Budapest » See also

    Indonesia

  • Imogiri - founded by Sultan Agung
  • Kalibata Cemetery

    Iran

  • Astan-e Quds-e Razavi in Mashhad
  • Bam cemetery in Bam
  • Behesht-e Fazl in Neyshabur (Where Fazlinb-e shazan-e Neyshaburi's shrine is placed)
  • Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran - largest Iranian cemetery
  • Beheshtieh in Tehran - Jewish cemetery
  • Takht-e Foolad in Esfahan
  • Bagh-e Rezvan in Esfahan
  • Emamzadeh Taher in Karaj
  • Gurestan Bastani, Bushehr (the ancient cemetery, Bushehr)
  • Maghbarat ol-Shoara (the Poets’ cemetery in Tabriz)
  • Vadi-e Rahmat, Tabriz Cemetery
  • Naqsh-e Rustam (Achaemenid Royal Cemetery)
  • Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery, Rayy, Tehran
  • Shah Cheragh, Shiraz

    Iraq

  • Wadi-us-Salaam, Najaf - largest Islamic cemetery
  • Shuneziya, Baghdad - Burial place of saints and many pious personalities.

    Ireland

  • Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin - this cemetery has over 1500000 people buried in it - many victims of the great famine of 1845, there are also many prominent Irish figures buried here such as Michael Collins and Eamon DeValera
  • Carrowmore, County Sligo
  • Deansgrange, County Dublin
  • Huguenot Cemetery, Dublin
  • Newgrange, County Meath
  • St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton, Dublin

    Israel

  • Mount Herzl, the official cemetery for the leaders of Israel, where many Prime Ministers of Israel and President of Israel are buried. Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin are among those who are buried here.
  • Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem - in almost continual use from First Temple times until today. Menachem Begin buried here. See also and list of notable people buried on the Mount of Olives.
  • Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem.
  • Kinnereth Cemetery, a small cemetery on the Sea of Galilee shore. The poets Rachel and Naomi Shemer are buried here.

    Italy

  • Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Donatello and many members of the Medici family;
  • Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Galileo, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Gioacchino Rossini and many other notables;
  • 'English' Cemetery, Florence - burial site for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Trollope, Theodore Parker and others;
  • Porte Sante, Florence - resting place of Carlo Collodi and many others;
  • Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice - resting place of Titian, Claudio Monteverdi and the heart of Antonio Canova;
  • Campo di Verano cemetery, Rome
  • Cimitero Monumentale in Milan is a very large cemetery that includes the Famedio (Temple of Fame) where Giuseppe Verdi, Vladimir Horowitz, Alessandro Manzoni, Arturo Toscanini, Eva Peron and others are interred;
  • Camposanto, Pisa
  • Catacombs of Rome
  • Mausoleum of Theodoric
  • Protestant Cemetery, Rome - resting place of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats;
  • San Michele, Venice - Venice's main cemetery and resting place of Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev;
  • Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno, Genoa--famous for its sepulchral sculpture and architecture.

    Japan

  • Foreign cemeteries in Japan

    Kenya

  • Wajee Nature Park, Nyeri, resting place of Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Scouting movement.

    Latvia

    Riga
  • Bralu kapi
  • Lielie kapi
  • Pokrova kapi
  • Meža kapi
  • Raiņa kapi
  • Sarkandaugavas kapi

    Lithuania

  • Antakalnis Cemetery, Vilnius
  • Rasos Cemetery, Vilnius
  • Bernardine Cemetery (Vilnius)
  • Saltoniskiu Cemetery, Vilnius

    Malaysia

  • Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (250,000 m²) Chinese cemetery outside China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.
  • Taman Selatan
  • Tanjung Kupang Memorial
  • Taiping War Cemetery
  • Labuan War Cemetery

    Mexico

  • Panteón de Dolores, Mexico City
  • Panteón Español, Mexico City
  • Panteón Francés, Mexico City
  • Panteón de Belén, Guadalajara, Jalisco
  • Panteón del Carmen, Monterrey, Nuevo León
  • Panteón de Dolores, Monterrey, Nuevo León
  • Parque funeral Guadalupe, Monterrey, Nuevo León
  • Panteones Municipales de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León
  • Panteón del Roble, Monterrey, Nuevo León
  • Panteón Valle de Paz, Monterrey, Nuevo León
  • Panteón Tepeyac, Monterrey, Nuevo León

    Netherlands

  • Westgaarde, Amsterdam
  • Zorgvlied, Amsterdam
  • Westerkerk, Amsterdam - Resting place of Rembrandt van Rijn
  • Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam - Resting place of Joost van den Vondel, Michiel de Ruyter
  • Nieuwe Kerk, Delft - Resting place of William I of Orange, most members of House of Orange
  • Oude Kerk, Delft - Resting place of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Maarten Tromp, Johannes Vermeer
  • Holten Canadian War Cemetery
  • Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
  • Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery
  • Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel

    New Zealand

  • Northern Cemetery (Dunedin) - final resting place of Thomas Bracken, author of New Zealand's national anthem, God Defend New Zealand.

    Pakistan

  • Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal located in front of the Badshahi Masjid, Lahore
  • Chaukhandi Tombs, Karachi
  • Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi - Final resting place of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan
  • Miani Sahib Qabaristan, Lahore - Hundreds of years old, it's the largest cemetery in Lahore, contains graves of saints and pious people.
  • Makli Hill, Thatta - One of the largest necropolis in the world, contains hundreds of graves of saints, pious people, local rulers and kings.
  • Wadi-a-Hussain Cemetery, Karachi

    Philippines

  • Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila
  • Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of Heroes), Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila
  • Manila North Cemetery, Manila
  • Manila Chinese Cemetery, Manila
  • La Loma Cemetery, Manila and Caloocan

    Peru

  • Presbítero Maestro -

    Poland

  • Kraków - Rakowicki Cemetery,
  • Kraków - Skałka, the "National Pantheon",
  • Kraków - Wawel Cathedral, burial place for Polish kings, bishops of Kraków,poets and national heroes,
  • Szczecin - Central Cemetery - one of the largest cemeteries in Europe,
  • Warsaw - Powązki Cemetery, among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieślowski and Nobel Prize winning author Władysław Reymont,

    Portugal

  • Church of Santa Engrácia - the National Pantheon, burial place of Amália Rodrigues, Vasco da Gama among others.

    Puerto Rico

  • Puerto Rico National Cemetery in Bayamón
  • Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan, bural place of authors Pedro Salinas, Muna Lee and singer Tony Croatto
  • Cementerio Nuevo de Ciales

    Romania

  • Bellu cemetery, Bucharest
  • Merry Cemetery, Săpânţa (Maramureş)

    Russia

  • Moscow
  • Novodevichy Cemetery at the New Maidens' Convent, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, Boris Yeltsin, the writers Nikolai Gogol and Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
  • Vagankovskoye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia is the burial site for Inga Artamonova, Vladimir Vysotsky, Sergei Grinkov, Sergei Yesenin and others.
  • Donskoe Cemetery in Moscow is an old necropolis next to the Donskoy Monastery.
  • Rogozhskoye cemetery in Moscow is the center of Old Believer community in Russia and the world.
  • Lenin's Mausoleum - the final resting place of Vladimir Lenin, with his embalmed body on public display.
  • Kremlin Wall Necropolis - part of the Kremlin Wall where Soviet governments buried many prominent Communist figures.
  • Pantheon, Moscow - a project in the 1950s to construct a monumental memorial tomb in Moscow, Soviet Union
  • Vvedenskoye Cemetery - cemetery of the former German community in Moscow
  • Saint Petersburg
  • Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Among those interred here's author Fyodor Dostoevsky, scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
  • Persian Shiite Cemetery, Saint Petersburg
  • Peter and Paul Fortress, Petersburg - all Russian Tsars since Peter the Great are buried in the cathedral.
  • Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg - burial ground for the victims of the Siege of Leningrad and probably the largest cemetery in the world by the number of people interred.
  • Komarovo Cemetery, Komarovo, Saint Petersburg - burial place of Saint Petersburg scientific and cultural intelligentsia such as Anna Akhmatova
  • Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) should be distinguished from the eponymous cemetery in Moscow.
  • Volkovo Cemetery one of the largest non orthodox cemeteries in Saint Petersburg
  • Smolensk Cemetery another of the largest non orthodox cemeteries in Saint Petersburg

    Slovakia

  • Slávičie údolie cemetery in Bratislava
  • Slavín monumental memorial and cemetery of fallen Soviet Army soldiers in Bratislava
  • National Cemetery in Martin
  • Cemeteries of Villages in Eastern Slovakia

    Slovenia

  • Žale, Ljubljana, especially the so-called "Propylaea" and the mortuary "chapels" built by Jože Plečnik around 1940.
  • Navje, Ljubljana, the open-air cemetery of many famous Slovene and foreign personalities (for example Josef Ressel, the inventor of the ship propeller).

    Serbia

  • Novo Groblje in Belgrade - burial ground of many famous Serbs

    South Korea

  • Seoul National Cemetery
  • Daejeon National Cemetery

    Spain

  • Cementerio de la Almudena - Madrid's largest cemetery
  • El Escorial - burial place for the monarchs of Spain
  • Cementerio de San Fernando - Sevilla's cemetery
  • Panteón de Hombres Ilustres, in Madrid
  • Royal Chapel of Granada, where the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand with Joanna of Castile "La Loca" and Philip the Handsome lie.
  • Valle de los Caídos. Francisco Franco, Primo de Rivera, and more than 30.000 soldiers of both factions deceased in the Spanish Civil War lay there.

    Saudi Arabia

  • Baqi Cemetery, Medina
  • Jannat al-Mualla, Mecca Both these cemeteries are outstanding religiously historical burial grounds. Eminent early Islamic figures are buried at both these sites as well as other places. However, these two cemeteries are held in esteem. Many people even today desire these sites to be their final journey.

    Sweden

  • Riddarholmskyrkan, Stockholm
  • Norra begravningsplatsen, established in 1827 in northern Stockholm, is the burial site for a number of Swedish notables including Alfred Nobel, Ingrid Bergman and Ulrich Salchow.
  • Skogskyrkogården, a relatively new cemetery opened in 1920 in southern Stockholm, has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amongst others, the cemetery contains the graves of actress Greta Garbo.
  • Uppsala Cathedral is the burial site for several Swedish kings and queens from the 16th and 17th century, as well as Carolus Linnaeus and Emanuel Swedenborg. The nearby Old Graveyard houses the grave of Dag Hammarskjöld.

    Switzerland

  • Basel
  • Berne
  • Geneva
  • Kilchberg, Zurich: Thomas Mann, Katia Mann, Erika Mann, Golo Mann, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
  • Morcote
  • Zurich