SortStack #320 — 2027-04-25
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Sumo wrestlers in Japan's top makuuchi division 42
Exactly forty-two slots exist; wrestlers are promoted or demoted after every single tournament.
- 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.
- Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K
Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.
- The population of Australia 26.6M
Nine in ten Australians live within 50 km of the coast; the interior is nearly empty.
- The population of Italy 59M
Home to the most UNESCO World Heritage sites of any country.
- Natural redheads worldwide 140M
Just one to two percent of humanity; the gene is recessive, so it can skip generations.