SortStack #1104 — 2029-06-17
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- 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.
- The population of Uruguay 3.4M
Won the first football World Cup in 1930 with fewer people than many single cities.
- The population of Hong Kong 7.5M
Has more skyscrapers than any other city on Earth — roughly double New York's count.
- Greater Delhi, India's capital region 33M
Adds roughly the population of a mid-size European city every single year.
- The population of Germany 84M
The EU's most populous country — yet its capital is only its third-densest city.
- The European Union, all member states combined 449M
Twenty-seven countries, twenty-four official languages, one market.