Largest gathering ever?

Gordon

Was Woodstock?

A mate of mine reminded me that Woodstock had 600,000 people attending it and I thought 'bugger me that's a lot of people!'

But was it the largest gathering of people on this earth ever? Were there collections of armies that were larger than this in Roman times? Or Hitlers time?

Basically, was there ever a gathering (in one place) of an extremely massive amount of people of more than 600,000?

Cake Fiend

Don't they get a couple of million into Tiananmen Square the odd time?

Gordon

Hmm, maybe I should have done a google...

2,000,000

6,000,000 apparently

Come to think of it, maybe the largest gatherings would be televised gatherings such as the Diana wedding and the Bob Geldof thing and some Chinese torture show probably..

Sundy

What about when the pope came hopw many people turned out to see him?

spanner

yea a million and a half people were meant to have turned up to see the pope in ireland but i dont think that was all in the same place

tricky D

way off the mark folks. First there's the Hadj...

but the biggest by miles is...

The Maha Kumbh Mela 2001
Over 30 Million people will come together at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India on January 24th, 2001

www.kumbhmela.com/