SortStack #873 — 2028-10-29

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K

   Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.

2. The population of Iceland 390K

   So small that a dating app warns Icelanders if a match is actually their cousin.

3. The population of Bhutan 780K

   Measures national success in Gross National Happiness, and is carbon-negative.

4. The population of Kuwait 4.3M

   Roughly 70 percent of everyone living there is a foreign national.

5. Mumbai — the city proper 12.5M

   Its dabbawalas deliver about 200,000 lunchboxes daily with near-perfect accuracy, no apps involved.

6. The population of the Philippines 117M

   Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.

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