SortStack #586 — 2028-01-16

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Voting members of the US House of Representatives 435

   Frozen by law since 1929, even though the US population has nearly tripled since.

2. Residents of Saint Helena, Napoleon's island of exile 4.4K

   Until its airport opened in 2017, the only way in was a five-day boat trip from Cape Town.

3. Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, when the Spanish arrived 200K

   Built on a lake and bigger than almost every European city of its day.

4. Amsterdam — the city proper 920K

   Home to more bicycles than people, and roughly 12,000 bikes are fished out of canals yearly.

5. The population of Portugal 10.4M

   Once ran a global empire from a country smaller than the US state of Indiana.

6. The population of Spain 48M

   Hosts more bars per inhabitant than any other EU country.

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