SortStack #47 — 2026-07-26

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. The population of San Marino 34K

   Claims to be the world's oldest republic, founded — by tradition — in the year 301.

2. Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K

   Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.

3. Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, when the Spanish arrived 200K

   Built on a lake and bigger than almost every European city of its day.

4. The population of Cyprus 1.3M

   Its capital, Nicosia, is the world's last divided capital city, split by a UN buffer zone.

5. The population of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.2M

   Its coastline is just 20 km long — one of the shortest of any coastal country.

6. The population of Brazil 216M

   Home to more Catholics — and more Japanese people outside Japan — than any other country.

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