Millions Marched Against Bush's War 14–16 February 2003

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This list, compiled by Pokey Anderson, is by no means comprehensive. It includes information from press reports, police estimates, and organizer estimates, including from IndyMedia. Apologies to all the many wonderful places that held protests that were inadvertently not included.

Worldwide, more than 10 million and perhaps as many as 30 million people gathered together to show their opposition to Bush's War — from Antarctica to Zaragoza. Here are the crowd estimates, by country and city.

Biggest Gatherings

• Rome 2,500,000
• London 1,750,000
• Barcelona 1,500,000
• Madrid 1,500,000
• Paris 800,000
• New York 750,000
• Berlin 500,000
• Sydney 250,000–500,000 ?
• Melbourne 250,000
• San Francisco 200,000

Antarctica

• McMurdo Station 55

Note: Antarctica is the only continent where no wars ever happened.

Argentina

• Buenos Aires 50,000

Australia

• Adelaide 100,000
• Bellingen 2750
• Brisbane 100,000
• Canberra 16,000
• Darwin 2,000
• Hobart 15,000
• Lismore 7,000
• Melbourne 250,000
• Newcastle 20,000
• Perth 30,000
• Sydney 250,000 - 500,000 ?

Austria

• Vienna 20,000

Belgium

• Brussels 100,000 ?

Brazil

• Sao Paulo 30,000

Bulgaria

• Sofia 2,000

Canada

• Calgary 4,200
• Edmonton 10,000
• Halifax 2,000 (high 1 degree F)
• Meadow Lake, Sask. 45 (10 degrees F)
• Montreal 150,000
• Quebec City 3,000
• Red Deer, Alberta 200
• Toronto 25,000–100,000 (10 degrees F)
• Winnipeg 5,000 (high 5 degrees F, low -31)
• Vancouver 30,000

China

• Hong Kong 1,000

Croatia

• Zagreb 10,000 ?

Cuba

• Havana 5,000

Czech Republic

• Prague "hundreds"

Denmark

• Copenhagen 40,000

El Salvador

• San Salvador "large turnout"

Egypt

• Cairo 2,000

Finland

• Helsinki 15,000
• Turku 5,000

France

• Paris 800,000
• Montpellier 20,000
• Toulouse 10,000

Germany

• Berlin 500,000
• Stuttgart 50,000

Greece

• Athens 200,000
• Thessaloniki 40,000

Guatemala

• Guatemala City 250

Hungary

• Budapest 20,000

India

• Calcutta 10,000
• Kolkata 10,000

Iraq

• Baghdad 100,000+ ?

Ireland

• Dublin 150,000

Israel

• Tel Aviv 1,500

Italy

• Monza 5,000
• Rome 2,500,000
• Turin 1,500

Japan

• Atsugi 120
• Osaka 1,000
• Tokyo 25,000

Jordan

• Amman 3,000

Kazakhstan

• Almaty 50

Korea

• Seoul 10,000

Lebanon

• Beirut 10,000

Luxembourg

• Luxembourg-Ville 17,500

Malaysia

• Malaysia 3,000

Mexico

• Mexico City 15,000

Netherlands

• Amsterdam 80,000

New Zealand

• Auckland 10,000
• Christchurch 3,000
• Dunedin 1,500
• Tauranga 10
• Wellington 7,000
• Whanganui 70

Norway

• Arendal 700
• Bergen 12,500
• Fredrikstad 800
• Harstad 200
• Lillehammer 1,200
• Oslo 60,000
• Stavanger 5,000
• Trondheim 20,000
• Voss 350

Oman

• Muscat 76

Palestine

• Gaza 15,000

Peru

• Lima 300

Philippines

• Manila 10,000

Poland

• Warsaw 10,000

Portugal

• Lisbon 80,000
• Porto 10,000

Russia

• Krasnodar 5,000
• Moscow 1,000
• Voronezh 1,000

South Africa

• Capetown 5,000
• Durban 4,000
• Johannesburg 10,000

Spain

• Algeciras 15,000
• Andalusia 20,000+
• Barcelona 1,500,000
• Bilbao 100,000 ?
• Cadiz 100,000
• Ferrol 15,000+
• Girona 30,000
• Huesca 5,000+
• Lugo 12,000
• Madrid 1,500,000
• Malaga 50,000
• Oviedo 200,000
• Las Palmas 100,000
• Santander 35,000
• Seville 250,000
• Valencia 500,000

Sweden

• Gothenburg 30,000
• Malmo 5,000
• Stockholm 35,000

Switzerland

• Berne 40,000

Syria

• Damascus 200,000

Thailand

• Bangkok 3,000
• Pattani 10,000

Tunisia

• Sfax 3,000

Turkey

• Istanbul 5,000

Ukraine

• Kiev 2,000

United Kingdom

• Belfast 30,000
• Glasgow 80,000
• London 1,750,000

United States

• Albany, Oregon 125
• Asheville, North Carolina 2,000
• Ashland, Oregon 100
• Austin, Texas 10,000
• Birmingham, Alabama "several hundred"
• Bloomington, Indiana 500
• Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 150
• Boise 500
• Broward, Florida 200
• Charlotte, North Carolina 500
• Chicago 7,000
• Cleveland 1,200
• Colorado Springs 2000
• Columbia, South Carolina 250
• Columbus, Ohio 400+
• Coos Bay, Oregon 200
• Corvallis, Oregon 1000
• Dallas 5,000
• Dayton 150
• Denver 200
• Detroit 2,000
• Eugene 4,000
• Fairbanks 350
• Flagstaff 1,000
• Fort Wayne, IN 300
• Fresno 1,500
• Greensboro, North Carolina "thousands"
• Hilo, Hawaii 300
• Hollywood 100,000
• Houston 3,500
• Indianapolis 450 (ice storm)
• Ithaca 250 (temp 5 degrees F)
• Jefferson City, Missouri 150
• Juneau, Alaska 700
• Knoxville 1,000
• Lafayette, Indiana 150
• Lansing, Michigan 10,000
• Lawrence, Kansas 1,000
• Las Vegas 830
• Los Angeles 75,000–100,000
• Louisville 500
• Madison, WI 3,000
• Medford, Oregon 250 (in drenching rain)
• Miami 500
• Milwaukee 5,000
• Minden, Nevada 400
• Minneapolis 7,500
• Montpelier, Vermont 600
• Nashville 550
• New Orleans 1,000
• New York 750,000
• Pearl Harbor 600+
• Pensacola 250
• Philadelphia 10,000
• Phoenix 2,500
• Portland, Oregon 800
• Pullman, Washington/Moscow, Idaho 500
• Raleigh North Carolina 7,000
• Redding, California 200
• Rockford, Illinois 250
• Rogers Park, Illinois 3000
• Salem, Oregon 1,200
• Sacramento 10,000
• San Diego 10,000
• San Francisco 150,000–250,000
• San Jose 5,000
• Santa Cruz, California 5,000
• Santa Fe 7,500
• St. Cloud 140
• St. Louis 3,000
• Saratoga Springs, NY 300 (5 degrees F below zero)
• Seattle 60,000
• Wilmington, North Carolina "thousands"

Uruguay

• Montevideo 50,000

Venezuela

• Caracas 5,000

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We Are the World

(This list includes the cities for which no crowd estimate is available.)

Aalborg + A Coruña + Adelaide + Aix-en-Provence + Agen + Akron + Akureyri + Albacete + Albany, Oregon + Alcalá + Algeciras + Alicante + Alice Springs + Almería + Aligarh + Amarillo + Amman + Amsterdam + Andorra + Angouleme + Anapolis Royal + Antigonish + Antwerp + Arendal+ Arhus + Armidale, Australia + Armidale, Wisconsin + Arosa + Arrecife + Asheville + Ashland + Athens, Georgia + Athens, Greece + Atlanta + Auckland + Austin + Ávila + Azuqueca de Henares + Baghdad + Bahawalpur + Bahia + Baiona + Bagnols-Sur-Ceze + Baltimore + Bangkok + Bangor + Barcelona + Bariloche + Bauru + Beavercreek + Beirut + Belfast + Bellingen + Bellingham + Beoria + Bergen + Berlin + Bermuda + Berne + Bibao + Bilbao + Billings + Biloxi + Birmingham, Alabama + Bisbee + Blacksburg + Bloemfontein + Bloomington + Bodoe + Bogotá + Boise + Bombay + Boulder + Brampton + Bratislava + Brisbane + Briviesca + Brussels + Brxnshxj + Bucharest + Budapest + Buenos Aires + Buffalo + Bulawayo + Bundaberg + Burgos + Burlington + Butler + Busan + Byron Bay + Cádiz + Cairns + Cairo + Calcutta + Calexico + Calgary + Canberra + Canmore + Canton + Canton, NY + Cape Cod + Cape Girardeau + Cape Town + Capt. Cook + Caracas + Carbondale + Castellón + Castlegar + Caxias do Sul + Cedar Rapids + Central Coast + Charleston + Charlotte + Charlottetown + Charlottesville + Chatanooga + Chicago + Chico + Christchurch + Cincinnati + Ciudad Real + Ciutadella + Clermont Ferrand + Cleveland + Cluj-Napoca + Coburg + Coimbra + Colorado Springs + Columbia, Missouri + Columbia, SC + Columbus, Ohio + Comox Valley + Concord + Coos Bay + Copenhagen + Cordoba + Corinth + Cornwall + Corpus Christi + Cortez + Corvallis + Cranbrook, British Columbia + Croton-on-Hudson + Cowichan + Cuenca + Dallas + Damascus + Dannevirke + Darwin + Dayton + Daytona Beach + Deland + Denton + Detroit + Dhaka + Dili + Donosti + Dublin + Dubuque + Dunedin + Durango + Durban + Edmonton + Elche + El Hierro + El Rosario + Ellensburg, Washington + Encino + Erie, Pennsylvania + Esbjerg + Eugene + Évora + Fairbanks + Faisalabad + Farmington + Faro + Fayetteville + Ferrol + Fillmore + Findlay, Ohio + Flagstaff + Forster-Tuncurry + Fort Lauderdale + Fort Smith + Fort Wayne + Fraga + Fredricton + Fredrikstad + Fresno + Gainesville, Georgia + Galesburg + Galveston + Gazteiz-Vitoria + Geelong + Girona + Gisborne + Glasgow + Goiania + Gojranwala + Gothenburg + Granada + Grand Forks, British Columbia + Grand Junction + Grand Rapids + Greymouth + Guadalajara + Guatemala City + Guelph + Hadely + Halifax + Hamilton, New Zealand + Hamilton, Ontario + Hania + Harare + Harstad+ Hastings + Havana + Helsinki + Hereford + Hilo + Hobart + Holland + Hong Kong + Honolulu + Houston + Huelva + Huesca + Hull + Huntington + Hyderabad + Ibiza + Igualada + Indianapolis + Irakleio + Iruña-Pamplona + Isafjordur + Islamabad + Istanbul + Jaén + Jakarta + Jasper + Jefferson City + Jersey City + Joensuu + Johannesburg + Juneau + Jyväskylä + Kalamata + Kamloops + Kansas City + Karachi + Kavala + Kelowna, British Columbia + Kelowna + Kempsey + Kerkyra + Kharian + Kiev + Kigali + Kingston, Jamaica + Kingston, Ontario + Kitchener + Knoxville + Kolding + Krasnodar + Kristiansand + Kuala Lumpur + Kumamoto + Kuopio + Lafayette + Lahore + Lancaster + Lancaster, Pennsylvania + Lansing + Larkana + La Rochelle + Las Cruces + Las Palmas + Las Vegas + Launceton + Lawrence, Kansas + Layya + Leavinsworth + Le Mans + Lethbridge + Lexington + Lillehammer + Lilloet + Lima + Limoges + Lincoln + Lisbon + Lismore + Ljubljana + Lleida + Lloret de Mar + Loannina + Logroño + London, England + London + Long Beach + Longyearbyen + Los Angeles + Louisville + Lugo + Lusaka + Luxembourg + Lyon + Macomb + Madison + Madrid + Mahón + Málaga + Malmö + Manama + Mandi Bahaudin + Manila + Marseille + Martinique + Mataró + Matsumoto + McAllen + McMurdo Station + Medicine Hat + Medford, Oregon + Melbourne, Australia + Melbourne, Florida + Melilla + Memphis + Mexicali + Mexico City + Miami + Midland + Milwaukee + Minden, Nevada + Minneapolis + Moncton + Monforte de Lemos + Montague Center + Montevideo + Montlucon + Montpelier + Montreal + Moscow + Moscow, Idaho + Motueka + Moulin + Mount Vernon, Ohio + Muharraq + Multan + Murcia + Muscat + Mytilini + Naha + Nairobi + Nambucca Heads + Nelson + Newcastle + Niamey + Nantes + Narbonne + Nanaimo + Naples + Narvik + Nashville + Navplio + Nelson + New Britain + New Carlisle + New Orleans + New York City + Newark, Delaware + Nice + Nimes + Nokia + Norfolk, Virginia + North Newton + Nxrrebro + Okara + Olympia + Opotiki + Orange + Orangeville + Orillia + Orlando + Osaka + Oslo + Otsu + Ottawa + Oulu + Outre-Mer Guadeloup + Oviedo + Palencia + Palm Desert + Palma de Mallorca + Palmerston North + Pamplona + Paris + Parry Sound + Patras + Pecs + Peiraias + Penang + Pensacola + Penticton + Peoria + Perpignan + Perth + Peshawar + Peterborough + Philadelphia + Phoenix + Piedralaves + Pittsboro + Plattsburg + Ponta Delgada + Pontevedra + Portland, Maine + Portland, Oregon + Port Perry + Porto + Portsmouth + Powell River, British Columbia + Poznan + Prague + Prince Albert + Prince George + Puertollano + Pullman, Washington + Qualicum Beach + Qasur + Quebec City + Quito + Rabat + Raleigh + Ramallah + Randers + Red Deer + Regina + Rethymno + Reunion Island + Reykjavik + Richland Center + Rio de Janiero + Rio Grande do Sol + Risør + Riverview + Rockford + Rockhampton + Rodos + Rolla + Rome + Roros + Roskilde + Rotorua + Rovaniemi + Sackville + Sacramento + Saguenay + Sahiwal + Saint-Gaudens + Saint Helens + Salamanca + Salem + Salt Lake City + Saltspring Island + San Antonio + San Diego + San Francisco + San Jose, Califorania + San Jose, Costa Rica + San Juan + San Luis Obispo + San Miguel + San Salvador + San Sebastian + San Sebastián de Gomera + Santa Barbara + Santa Coloma + Santa Cruz + Santa Cruz de la Palma + Santa Cruz de Tenerife + Santa Fe + Santa Monica + Santander + Santiago + Santiago de Compostela + Santo Domingo + Sao Paulo + Saone et Loire + Sarasota + Sargodha + Saskatoon + Savannah + Savolinna + Seattle + Segovia + Seinäjoki + Seoul + Sevilla + Sfax + Sheikhupura + Sherbrooke + Shetland + Siero + Silkeborg + Silver City + Sioux Falls + Sitka + Skopje + Sofia + Soria + Sonora + South Bend + South Haven + Sparti + Spokane + Springfield + St. Augustine + St. Catherines + St. Charles + St. John's + St. Joseph + St. Louis + St. Paul + St. Petersburg + Starkville + Stavanger + Stockholm + Strasbourg + Struer + Sudbury + Sydney, Australia + Sydney, Nova Scotia + Tacoma + Taipei + Takaka + Talavera de la Reina + Tallahassee + Tallinn + Tamworth + Tarragona + Tauranga + Tehachapi + Tel Aviv + Temple + Teruel + Thames + Thessaloniki + Thornbury + Thunder Bay + Timaru + Toensberg + Tokyo + Toledo + Toronto + Tortosa + Toulon + Toulouse + Tours + Tripoli + Tromsoe + Trondheim + Truro + Tucson + Tulsa + Turku + Ulladulla + Uxbridge + Valby + Valence + Valencia + Valetta + Vallejo + Vancouver, British Columbia + Vichy + Victoria + Vienna + Vienne + Vigo + Vilnius + Vineyard Haven + Vitoria + Volos + Voronezh + Voss + Wagga Wagga + Wanganui + Warsaw + Watertown + Wausau + Waterloo + Wellington + West Palm Beach + Westport + Westbank, British Columbia + Whakatane + Whangarei + Whitehall + Whitehorse + Wilkes-Barre + Williamsburg + Williamsport + Williamstown + Wilmington + Windsor + Winnipeg + Wolfville + Wollongong + Wonju + Wroclaw + Yakima + Yarmouth + Yellowknife + York, PA + Youngstown + Zagreb + Zamora + Zaragoza

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