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cemetery
300px|thumb|Fiume Road Graveyard|Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary thumb|Cemetery in China thumb|Cemetery in Kavala, Greece A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise entombed. The word cemetery (from Greek ) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyar
catacombs
thumb|A procession in the Pope Callixtus I|San Callistus catacombs in [[Rome, painted by Alberto Pisa]]
necropolis
thumb|Graves at the Glasgow Necropolis in Scotland A necropolis (: necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. The name stems from the Ancient Greek nekropolis ().
Find a Grave
online database of burials
mass grave
grave containing multiple number of human corpses, usually buried anonymously
grave field
prehistoric cemetery lacking above-ground structures, buildings, or grave markers
churchyard
thumb|The churchyard of Straßwalchen, [[Austria]] In Christian countries, a churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church, which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself. In the Scots language and in both Scottish English and Ulster Scots, this can also be known as a kirkyard.
natural burial
interment of the body of a dead person in the soil in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition but allows the body to recycle naturally
potter's field
place for the burial of unknown or indigent people or prisoners
woodland cemetery
type of cemetery with trees
plague pit
mass grave in which victims of the Black Death were buried
rural cemetery
garden cemetery