Mina is known as the largest tent city in the world. Pilgrims must stay in Mina during Hajj and perform the Stoning of the Devil at the Jamarat. The ritual is performed between sunrise and sunset in the final days of the Hajj.

The largest "temporary" tent city in the world is typically set up in Mina, Saudi Arabia, to host over 2 to 3 million pilgrims during the annual Hajj. However, in 2026, the record for the largest singular gathering in a tented environment belongs to the Mahakumbh festival in India. For the 2025 Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, the government of Uttar Pradesh constructed a massive, 4,000-hectare tent city to accommodate an estimated 400 million visitors over a 45-day period. This temporary metropolis includes over 25,000 public accommodations, 2,000 luxury tents, hospitals, and 67,000 streetlights. Unlike the permanent structures in Mina, this "Kumbh" tent city is a feat of seasonal engineering, providing a "city within a city" at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers. It serves as a global landmark for logistical scale, housing a population larger than that of many entire countries in a purely temporary, tent-based infrastructure that is dismantled once the auspicious bathing dates conclude.