maha kumbh mela

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST EVENT MAHA KUMBH MELA More than 80 MILLION PEOPLE are expected to attend this year's Maha Kumbh Mela in India. This Hindu festival is held every 12 years, and lasts nearly two whole months. 80 million is a huge number, so we pulled together some figures to give you some context. HOW BIG IS 80 MILLION PEOPLE? 44 1165 The number of people The number of people who attended the 2012 Super Bowl who attended Obama's inauguration in 2009 2. 67 the number of people who attended the Diamond Jubilee the number of annual visitors to the Mall of America E THEY LIVED IN ONE COUNTRY. THE POPULATION WOULD BE 2.3x 2x 1.6 Canada Poland South Korea 17.8x 1* 3.5x Ireland Greece Australia IF THEY WANTED TO WATCH A GAME IOGETHER, THEY'D NEED Rose Bowls 1428 Dodger Stadiums 1528 Stadiums 4395 Square Gardens Yankee IN AN AVERAGE DAY THEY WOULD USE 456,000 rolls of toilet paper DRINK 160 million bottles of water PASS 40 million iters of gas SEND 536 million text messages NEED 34,906 tons of rice to live on IF YOU WANTED TO SQUEEZE THEM ALL INTO ONE AREA YOU'D NEED 29 x Vatican City 193 x 38x Buckingham Palace Mall of America ii i ii ii i ii i ii ii ii ii ii i ii ii MALL OFAMERICA IF YOU LAID THEM END-TO-END THEY WOULD REACH IF THEY ALL WANTED to ride the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland, IT WOULD TAKE around the center of the Earth 1,388 days 3.2 for everyone to have a turn times IF YOU LAID THEM END-TO-END, THEY WOULD STRETCH along the length of the Great Wall of China 6.2 times Sources: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bocianix/4616804302/sizes/Vin/photostream/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/kumbh-mela-the-largest-gathering-on-earth/100438/ http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/01/daily-chart-9 http://qz.com/43296/harvards-next-case-study-the-logistics-and-economics-behind-kumbh-mela-the-largest-human-gathering-in-history/ Attendly Attendly provides white label event registration and ticketing to bring people together all around the world. Your event doesn't need to have 80 million attendees to fit in with us. Big or small, we power them all. www.attendly.com