SortStack #516 — 2027-11-07

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240

   The most remote inhabited island on Earth — 2,400 km of ocean to the nearest neighbor.

2. The population of Iceland 390K

   So small that a dating app warns Icelanders if a match is actually their cousin.

3. The population of Latvia 1.9M

   Roughly a third of the country's people live in the capital, Riga.

4. Rio de Janeiro — the city proper 6.7M

   Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning so often it carries its own lightning rods.

5. The population of the Netherlands 18M

   The world's second-largest food exporter by value, from a country the size of Maryland.

6. The population of Nigeria 223M

   Projected to pass the United States and become the world's third most populous country by 2050.

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