SortStack #964 — 2029-01-28

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. The population of Monaco 38.4K

   About one in three residents is a millionaire — the densest concentration of wealth on Earth.

2. Capacity of Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium 78.8K

   For the 1950 World Cup final it crammed in roughly 200,000 — still the record football crowd.

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

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

4. Greater Cairo, Egypt's capital region 22M

   Africa's largest metro area sits beside pyramids that were already ancient to Cleopatra.

5. The population of the Philippines 117M

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

6. The population of China 1.4B

   Lost its crown as the world's most populous country in 2023 after centuries at the top.

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