SortStack #684 — 2028-04-23
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Residents of the Pitcairn Islands 47
Nearly all are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers who hid there in 1790.
- Capacity of London's Royal Albert Hall 5.3K
The Beatles, Einstein, and Muhammad Ali all appeared on its stage.
- Capacity of the world's largest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad 132K
It overtook Melbourne Cricket Ground, which had held the title for over a century.
- Mumbai — the city proper 12.5M
Its dabbawalas deliver about 200,000 lunchboxes daily with near-perfect accuracy, no apps involved.
- Greater Tokyo, the world's largest metro area 37M
More people than all of Canada, in an area you can cross by train in two hours.
- The population of Indonesia 277M
The world's largest archipelago nation and largest Muslim-majority population.