Big, Bigger, Biggest - Stadia

Today we are going to see about big things in the sports arena. Today we have facts about the Biggest Current Non-Auto Racing Sports Stadium in the world in terms of Seating Capacity. Before beginning, remember that there is a lot of criteria to be met in this fact, it is that the Stadium should be still standing, it should not house Auto Racing (as the seating capacity is cited differently by different sources) and it is selected on the criteria of seating capacity. This is done to increase the factual accuracy of today's content, thus avoiding mistakes.

So the Stadium that meets our criteria is the Rungrado May Day Stadium (photograph on the right) situated in Pyongyang, North Korea. It has a seating capacity of about 150,000, making it the Largest Non-Auto Racing Sports Stadium in the World. It is a multi-purpose stadium used for mass games, football and athletics. It has a total floor space of more than 207,000 sq.m and the pitch is over 22,500 sq.m. It has eight storeys and is about 60m high. The stadium has 80 exits and ten lifts. It was built in two and a half years on the picturesque Rungra Island in the Taedong River, and commissioned on May 1, 1989.