SortStack #810 — 2028-08-27
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135
Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss military training.
- The population of Vatican City 760
Many of its citizens don't live inside the walls — they're diplomats posted abroad.
- People who stay in Antarctica through the winter 1.1K
Once the last plane leaves in March, even medical evacuation can be impossible until spring.
- The population of Liechtenstein 39.6K
You can rent the entire country for corporate events — Snoop Dogg once tried.
- Amsterdam — the city proper 920K
Home to more bicycles than people, and roughly 12,000 bikes are fished out of canals yearly.
- The population of Latvia 1.9M
Roughly a third of the country's people live in the capital, Riga.