SortStack #418 — 2027-08-01
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- The population of Palau 18K
Visitors must sign an eco-pledge stamped into their passport, written by Palau's children.
- Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K
Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.
- Capacity of Michigan Stadium, the largest stadium in the US 107.6K
Nicknamed The Big House — on game days it briefly becomes one of Michigan's largest cities.
- Rio de Janeiro — the city proper 6.7M
Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning so often it carries its own lightning rods.
- 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.
- The population of India 1.4B
Now the world's most populous country — one in six humans is Indian.