SortStack #117 — 2026-10-04

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. The population of Latvia 1.9M

   Roughly a third of the country's people live in the capital, Riga.

2. Los Angeles — the city proper 3.9M

   Second-largest US city, yet so spread out it covers more land than 20 Manhattans.

3. The population of Spain 48M

   Hosts more bars per inhabitant than any other EU country.

4. The population of the Philippines 117M

   Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.

5. Natural redheads worldwide 140M

   Just one to two percent of humanity; the gene is recessive, so it can skip generations.

6. Every human alive when Napoleon crowned himself emperor 1B

   It took all of human history to reach the first billion — and only 220 more years to add seven more.

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