Pub debate - where in the world?!

[oligopoly]

Me and my friends were discussing this the other day:

which single square foot piece of land has the most amount of human beings ever stood in the history of the world? (obviously not at the same time - over the years!)

egypt? africa? any suggestions as to a precise location?

[dotjhawkes]

Somewhere in China I would imagine

[lankeela]

The queue for the dole office in Liverpool

Apologies to any Liverpudlians (LOL)

[SeaJayPea]

The pavement just outside Madame Tussauds in London seems to have had a constant queue for at least the last fifty years. On the basis that it shuffles forward at a pace of about 1 person every 10 seconds and it's open about 10 hours a day, that would be, don't tell me, 65,700,000. Or are my assumptions just a little bit out?

[brachiopod]

Somewhere in Rome perhaps?

St Peter's Square, in the Vatican City? Somewhere that has been a centre of population for millenia and still full of people today.

[luckystrike]

What about the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, within the walled Old City of Jerusalem?

[jake-the-peg]

You're looking for a queue all right. One that has been in contant existance for a long time.

Lenin's tomb in Red Square perhaps - I like the chuich of the holy spulcre suggestion or the wailing wall

[spudqueen]

How about Mecca? Have you seen how many people go to the Haj?

[oligopoly]

spudqueen - yeah my mate said mecca :)

obviously there is no definite answer. i think its fair to say its nowhere in the western world

[brachiopod]

I thought it would be fair to say that it is somewhere around the Old World - the Mediterranean basin or Asia Minor somewhere?

The 'Madame Tussaud's' and 'Lenin's Tomb' ideas are good thinking in terms of the sheer number of feet that have surely tramped over their respective thresholds, but since they have both hardly been there a century, I can't help thinking it is not them.

The Colloseum in Rome or Parthenon in Athens must surely have had ten times that rate of feet passing by for centuries on end just in ancient times, let alone all the tourists of the last 50 years or so?

It's a bloody good question, though !!

[scrumpy78]

Dome of the rock, Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Israel is the most visited place on the planet. More humans have gone there in prayer than any other single

[scrumpy78]

place on the earth - apparently!!! http://www.netmar.com/~maat/archive/nov2/gray.htm

[scrumpy78]

In england, london and then the lake district comes a close second. debates as to where in London, cross between picadilly circus and buckingham palace.

i must be really bored today!!!

[jno]

I would have thought London quite possibly - it hasn't been around as long as Rome or Athens, but for much of its history has been bigger than they were (still is, I think). So the fact that an extra million people might walk though Piccadilly Circus today outweighs the fact that an extra thousand might have walked through the Parthenon 2,000 years ago. But I'm just speculating. Could well be Mme Tussaud's or the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

[redheap]

I would say a religious precinct (like Mecca) somewhere in Egypt. This has the longevity of existence, plus amount of people (even up to modern tourists).

For a sq foot though are we that specific? would anyone actually know!