SortStack #887 — 2028-11-12

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Seats in the Sydney Opera House's main concert hall 2.7K

   The building's sails were so hard to engineer that the design pre-dated computers able to verify it.

2. Capacity of Michigan Stadium, the largest stadium in the US 107.6K

   Nicknamed The Big House — on game days it briefly becomes one of Michigan's largest cities.

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 Germany 84M

   The EU's most populous country — yet its capital is only its third-densest city.

5. The population of the United States 335M

   If American pets formed a country, its population would rival the human one.

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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