SortStack #712 — 2028-05-21

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. People who have ever stood on the summit of Mount Everest 6.9K

   Kami Rita Sherpa has been up more than 30 times — roughly one in every 230 summits is his.

2. Ancient Rome at the height of the empire 1M

   No European city reached a million residents again until London, around 1800.

3. The population of Cyprus 1.3M

   Its capital, Nicosia, is the world's last divided capital city, split by a UN buffer zone.

4. Los Angeles — the city proper 3.9M

   Second-largest US city, yet so spread out it covers more land than 20 Manhattans.

5. The New York metropolitan area 19.5M

   Its economy alone would rank among the ten largest countries in the world.

6. The population of Spain 48M

   Hosts more bars per inhabitant than any other EU country.

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