SortStack #978 — 2029-02-11

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the island nation of Niue 1.9K

   One of the world's largest coral islands, and the first country fully covered by free Wi-Fi.

2. 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.

3. The population of Dominica 73K

   Its mountainous rainforest interior is so rugged that Columbus reportedly described it by crumpling paper.

4. Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, when the Spanish arrived 200K

   Built on a lake and bigger than almost every European city of its day.

5. The population of Iceland 390K

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

6. The population of Malta 540K

   The EU's smallest member squeezes onto islands smaller than Philadelphia.

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