SortStack #439 — 2027-08-22

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. 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.

2. The population of Reykjavík 140K

   The world's northernmost capital heats its streets and pavements with volcanic geothermal water.

3. The population of Cape Verde 520K

   More Cape Verdeans live abroad than on the islands themselves.

4. The population of Kuwait 4.3M

   Roughly 70 percent of everyone living there is a foreign national.

5. The New York metropolitan area 19.5M

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

6. The population of China 1.4B

   Lost its crown as the world's most populous country in 2023 after centuries at the top.

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