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Rungrado May Day Stadium is the largest stadium

Its official capacity of about 114,000 is the highest of any stadium The stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, opened in 1989 and has a listed capacity of roughly 114,000 spectators, the largest of any stadium in use. Its roof is formed of sixteen arches that overlap like the petals of a flower. It hosts the mass games, in which tens of thousands of performers take part, and has been renovated since opening. 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?: Its official capacity of about 114,000 is the highest of any stadium. The figure is taken from Britannica, 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.