SortStack #1111 — 2029-06-24

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240

   The most remote inhabited island on Earth — 2,400 km of ocean to the nearest neighbor.

2. The population of Palau 18K

   Visitors must sign an eco-pledge stamped into their passport, written by Palau's children.

3. The population of Norway 5.5M

   Its sovereign wealth fund owns about 1.5 percent of every listed company on Earth.

4. Mumbai — the city proper 12.5M

   Its dabbawalas deliver about 200,000 lunchboxes daily with near-perfect accuracy, no apps involved.

5. People with an Instagram account 2B

   If it were a country, it would be the largest on Earth — by a wide margin.

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

   All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

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