SortStack #208 — 2027-01-03
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Seats in the Sydney Opera House's main concert hall 2.7K
The building's sails were so hard to engineer that the design pre-dated computers able to verify it.
- San Francisco — the city proper 810K
Smaller in population than Indianapolis, despite its outsized cultural footprint.
- The population of Germany 84M
The EU's most populous country — yet its capital is only its third-densest city.
- The population of Vietnam 100M
Roughly 40 percent of all Vietnamese share the surname Nguyen.
- People with an Instagram account 2B
If it were a country, it would be the largest on Earth — by a wide margin.
- Christians worldwide 2.4B
The world's largest religion — nearly a third of humanity across every continent.