The Maha Kumbh Mela is without doubt one of the largest non secular gatherings on Earth. It’s a Hindu pilgrimage competition that happens each 12 years. The 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, held in Prayagraj, was notably vital as a result of it was a “Maha Kumbh”, an occasion that takes place solely as soon as each 144 years, because of a uncommon celestial alignment.
In the course of the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, an estimated 663 million pilgrimages have been remodeled a 45-day interval. That’s equal to the mixed populations of Russia, Japan, Vietnam, Brazil, Italy, and Australia. In actual fact, in line with Reuters, “If this quantity of individuals fashioned their very own nation, they’d be the third largest behind China and India.”
Reuters additionally makes use of flower petals as a inventive technique to illustrate the huge scale of attendance. In the course of the competition, flower petals are historically showered on devotees and used to welcome non secular leaders. In Reuters’ visualization, one petal represents 10,000 individuals. These petals are grouped into squares, every symbolizing 1 million individuals, to signify the 663 million pilgrimages. Let’s simply say – it takes fairly a little bit of scrolling to see the total 663 million within the Reuters’ visualization.
