SortStack #1076 — 2029-05-20

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. 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.

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. The population of Iceland 390K

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

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 the United States 335M

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

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