SortStack #509 — 2027-10-31
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Capacity of London's Royal Albert Hall 5.3K
The Beatles, Einstein, and Muhammad Ali all appeared on its stage.
- Seats on Wimbledon's Centre Court 15K
The retractable roof takes about ten minutes to close — rain delays used to last days.
- The population of Cyprus 1.3M
Its capital, Nicosia, is the world's last divided capital city, split by a UN buffer zone.
- The population of Qatar 2.7M
Citizens are outnumbered roughly eight to one by foreign workers and expats.
- The population of Germany 84M
The EU's most populous country — yet its capital is only its third-densest city.
- 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.