Long Island National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Suffolk County, New York. Its mailing address is Farmingdale. It is within the CDPS of Wyandanch, in the Town of Babylon, and Melville in the Town of Huntington. It encompasses 364.7 acres (147.6 ha), and as of 30 September 2006, had 329,704 interments - making it the US National Cemetery with the largest number of interments.
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