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Wow, I had been under the impression that the Arba'een Pilgrimage[0] was the largest human annual migration but the Lunar New Year easily surpasses it. This art
by eindiran 7y ago
Wow, I had been under the impression that the Arba'een Pilgrimage[0] was the largest human annual migration but the Lunar New Year easily surpasses it. This article has some good info on the sizes of a few recurring migrations and their size: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/02/14/chinese-new-year-the-worlds-largest-human-migration-is-about-to-begin-infographic https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/02/14/chines...
The infographic is absolutely crazy: https://blogs-images.forbes.com/niallmccarthy/files/2018/02/20180214_Migrations.jpg https://blogs-images.forbes.com/niallmccarthy/files/2018/02/...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arba%27een_Pilgrimage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arba%27een_Pilgrimage
- yingw787 7y agoI was under that impression too! Maybe it’s because the Hajj has much more disparate travelers that I bin it under “migration”.
- yingw787 7y agoWhoops, confused Hajj with Arba’een. I did not know about the latter and I assumed that they were the same. Arba’een is much larger than the Hajj.
- dmix 7y agoThat's surprising, Hajj gets a lot more press/prestige it seems. Saudi is a similar sized population as Iraq, that infographic comparison is interesting to say the least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Middle_Eastern_countries_by_population?oldformat=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Middle_Eastern_countri... (Iran, not listed, is 81.16M)
- akiselev 7y agoThe Hajj is a once in a lifetime pilgrimage for most Muslims while the Arba'een is an annual regional event of Shia solidarity. The former is done by a far greater number of unique individuals but the latter can be bigger on an annual basis.
- t0ughcritic 7y agoWhat about the Kumbh Mela known as the worlds largest congregation of pilgrims?
- akiselev 7y agoTIL!