Ayodhya lit 2.23 million earthen lamps in its record-breaking 2023 Diwali display.
The official Guinness count was 2,223,676 oil lamps, usually rounded in news reports to 2.23 million or 22.23 lakh. The lamps were arranged along the ghats of the Saryu River during Ayodhya’s Deepotsav celebration on the eve of Diwali.
The 2023 display broke Ayodhya’s own previous record of 1,576,944 lamps, set in 2022. About 25,000 volunteers helped place and light the diyas in coordinated rows, while officials used monitoring and counting procedures to verify the display.
A common mix-up is confusing the 2023 figure with later Ayodhya records. The city surpassed 2.23 million again in 2024, when more than 2.5 million lamps were reported. The quiz asks specifically about the 2023 event, whose precise count was 2,223,676.