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The Kumbh Mela is the largest gathering of people

Organisers counted about 240 million visits at Prayagraj in 2019 The festival is held on a rotating basis at four Indian cities where rivers meet, and the 2019 edition at Prayagraj ran for about seven weeks. Officials reported roughly 240 million visits across the period, with a single day drawing tens of millions to the bathing ghats. Attendance is estimated from railway ticket sales, road counts and aerial photography rather than a gate. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Organisers counted about 240 million visits at Prayagraj in 2019. The figure is taken from UNESCO, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.