SortStack #271 — 2027-03-07
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Residents of Tokelau, in the South Pacific 1.5K
The first nation to run on 100 percent solar power, and it has no airport at all.
- The population of Luxembourg 660K
Nearly half its workforce commutes in daily from France, Belgium, and Germany.
- The population of Norway 5.5M
Its sovereign wealth fund owns about 1.5 percent of every listed company on Earth.
- The population of Portugal 10.4M
Once ran a global empire from a country smaller than the US state of Indiana.
- The population of Istanbul 15.6M
The only major city spanning two continents — you can commute between Europe and Asia by ferry.
- The population of the United States 335M
If American pets formed a country, its population would rival the human one.