SortStack #649 — 2028-03-19
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240
The most remote inhabited island on Earth — 2,400 km of ocean to the nearest neighbor.
- 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 Kuwait 4.3M
Roughly 70 percent of everyone living there is a foreign national.
- The population of Canada 40M
The world's second-largest country by area has fewer people than Greater Tokyo.
- The European Union, all member states combined 449M
Twenty-seven countries, twenty-four official languages, one market.
- Everyone living on the African continent 1.5B
The youngest continent: the median African is around 19 years old.