SortStack #348 — 2027-05-23

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Capacity of Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium 78.8K

   For the 1950 World Cup final it crammed in roughly 200,000 — still the record football crowd.

2. The population of Brunei 450K

   The Sultan's palace has 1,788 rooms and opens to the public for three days every year.

3. Paris — the city proper, inside the ring road 2.1M

   Smaller than Houston; the greater metro area holds five times as many people.

4. New York City — the five boroughs 8.3M

   If each borough were its own city, four of them would still rank in the US top ten.

5. The New York metropolitan area 19.5M

   Its economy alone would rank among the ten largest countries in the world.

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

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

← All puzzles · Play today’s SortStack