Maybe more than 100K, but definitely not 20+ mil
For the other days, I seriously doubt it is above the 100K, for November the 20th it probably is.
Bro, how did you get specific satellite imagery for the days you wished? What website is this? I want pictures of the main entrances to Karbala' on Arbaeen to see how crowded they are. It seems the Shia are now shifting their position to saying that the 23 million were not gathered in the city at once, rather they were on the road between Najaf and Karbala'.
It's in the watermark, Terraserver. It is true that they have set up camps throughout the city to accomodate for the people and there are a lot of people on the road in Karbala itsself which you can see in the image below taken on Nov 20, showing the entrance to Karbala from the Najaf-Karbala road. Nevertheless, these people have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
Najaf to Karbala is 75 km long, the road is about 10 m long in its width, giving a total area of 750.000 m2. If we take a crowd density of 1 person per m2, which is
ABSOLUTELY not the case and very very very generous, it gives 0.75 million people. Let's add the road from Baghdad to it too, which is 100 km to Karbala and gives another million. Add the road from Hilla to it too, which gives another 50 km and an additional half a million people, you still get only a total of 2.25 million people and I am already making ridiculous assumptions here.
Additionally, if we take the two shrines and between it, that area is about 85000 m2. Regarding crowd densities, it is
PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to get a crowd density of over 9 people per square meter, which is what you see sometimes in Japan when they squeeze people into a full train. So if we remove the two shrines and all the trees and everything else and level everything and pack the people on those two squares and between you would end up with another 0.75 million people. Unless these shrines have ten floors or something you could physically speaking never even reach a million on the gathering place itsself.
You see, with even the most ridiculous assumptions, filling from the north the entire road from Baghdad to Karbala, from the east the entire road from Hilla to Karbala, and filling from the south the entire road from Najaf to Karbala and absolutely packing the area of the two shrines with people and I still can't get past the 3 million!
And this is not even the case, I have added another image of the Najaf-Karbala road, but now from the Najaf side 10 km from Najaf and it's still absolutely empty.
To see how ridiculous this is from another angle, consider the following. Karbala has less than ten entrances to the city. That means that if you want to accomodate an influx of 23 million people on a day, then assuming ten entrances, through
EACH ENTRANCE would have to pass more than 25 people
EVERY SINGLE SECOND for the
ENTIRE 24 HOURS of that day!!
You might wanna edit this, state it's less than one million and cite our website article as source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_peaceful_gatherings_in_history
Who is familiar with Wikipedia editing and wants to take the honors?