Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre cemetery in western , New York City, United States. Founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery, it has 570,000 interments as of 2024, including many politicians, soldiers, artists, and business figures.
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  • Cemetery
  • …lies at an elevation of 171 feet (52 metres)
  • …is also known as “Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn”
  • Description: cemetery in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; National Historic Landmark

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Prospect Park and Battle Hill.
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is the highest natural point in , , United States.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Windsor Terrace and South Slope.
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Green-Wood Cemetery

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Latitude
40.65233° or 40° 39′ 8″ north
Longitude
-73.99069° or 73° 59′ 27″ west
Open location code
87G8M225+WP
Geo­Names ID
5119341
Wiki­data ID
Q239043

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Green-Wood Cemetery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقبرة غرين-وود”
  • Armenian: “Գրին-Վուդ գերզմանոց”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qrin-Vud qəbiristanlığı”
  • Basque: “Green-Wood hilerria”
  • Belarusian: “Грын-Вуд”
  • Belarusian: “Грын-Вудзкія могілкі”
  • Catalan: “Cementiri Green Wood”
  • Chinese: “格林伍德公墓”
  • Chinese: “綠蔭公墓”
  • Chinese: “绿荫公墓”
  • Czech: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
  • Danish: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
  • Dutch: “Green-Wood-begraafplaats”
  • Esperanto: “tombejo Green-Wood”
  • Finnish: “Green-Woodin hautausmaa”
  • French: “cimetière de Green-Wood”
  • French: “Cimetière de Green-Wood”
  • Galician: “cemiterio de Green-Wood”
  • Georgian: “გრინ-ვუდი”
  • Georgian: “გრინ-ვუდის სასაფლაო”
  • German: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
  • Greek: “Κοιμητήριο Γκριν-Γουντ”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות גרינווד”
  • Hungarian: “Green-Wood temető”
  • Italian: “cimitero di Green-Wood”
  • Italian: “Cimitero di Green-Wood”
  • Japanese: “グリーンウッド墓地”
  • Korean: “그린-우드 공동묘지”
  • Korean: “그린우드 묘지”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
  • Portuguese: “Cemitério Green-Wood”
  • Portuguese: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
  • Romanian: “Cimitirul Green-Wood”
  • Russian: “Грин-Вуд”
  • Slovenian: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
  • Spanish: “cementerio de Green-Wood”
  • Spanish: “Cementerio de Green-Wood”
  • Spanish: “Cementerio de Greenwood”
  • Swedish: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
  • Turkish: “Green-Wood Mezarlığı”
  • Ukrainian: “Грін-Вудський цвинтар”
  • Vietnamese: “Nghĩa trang Green-Wood”
  • Welsh: “Mynwent Green-Wood”
  • Yakut: “Гринвуд Сээмэтри”

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