SortStack #530 — 2027-11-21
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- The population of Vatican City 760
Many of its citizens don't live inside the walls — they're diplomats posted abroad.
- 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.
- The population of Uruguay 3.4M
Won the first football World Cup in 1930 with fewer people than many single cities.
- The population of Kuwait 4.3M
Roughly 70 percent of everyone living there is a foreign national.
- The New York metropolitan area 19.5M
Its economy alone would rank among the ten largest countries in the world.
- Natural redheads worldwide 140M
Just one to two percent of humanity; the gene is recessive, so it can skip generations.