SortStack #740 — 2028-06-18

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. The population of Nauru 12.5K

   The world's smallest island nation was once, briefly, the richest country per capita on Earth.

2. The population of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.2M

   Its coastline is just 20 km long — one of the shortest of any coastal country.

3. The population of Singapore 5.9M

   A city-state smaller than New York City, yet one of the world's busiest ports.

4. The population of Australia 26.6M

   Nine in ten Australians live within 50 km of the coast; the interior is nearly empty.

5. The population of Canada 40M

   The world's second-largest country by area has fewer people than Greater Tokyo.

6. Every human alive when Napoleon crowned himself emperor 1B

   It took all of human history to reach the first billion — and only 220 more years to add seven more.

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