SortStack #40 — 2026-07-19

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. People who have ever won a Nobel Prize 975

   Four people won it twice; the Curie family alone collected five medals.

2. The population of Luxembourg 660K

   Nearly half its workforce commutes in daily from France, Belgium, and Germany.

3. The population of Bhutan 780K

   Measures national success in Gross National Happiness, and is carbon-negative.

4. New York City — the five boroughs 8.3M

   If each borough were its own city, four of them would still rank in the US top ten.

5. Greater Cairo, Egypt's capital region 22M

   Africa's largest metro area sits beside pyramids that were already ancient to Cleopatra.

6. The population of Egypt 112M

   About 95 percent of Egyptians live on just 5 percent of the land, hugging the Nile.

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