SortStack #257 — 2027-02-21

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Pitcairn Islands 47

   Nearly all are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers who hid there in 1790.

2. The population of Andorra 81K

   Co-ruled to this day by the President of France and a Spanish bishop.

3. The population of Jamaica 2.8M

   Has won more Olympic sprint medals per capita than any nation in history.

4. The population of Hong Kong 7.5M

   Has more skyscrapers than any other city on Earth — roughly double New York's count.

5. 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.

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

   All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

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