SortStack #1174 — 2029-08-26

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of Tokelau, in the South Pacific 1.5K

   The first nation to run on 100 percent solar power, and it has no airport at all.

2. The population of Dominica 73K

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

3. The population of Cyprus 1.3M

   Its capital, Nicosia, is the world's last divided capital city, split by a UN buffer zone.

4. The population of Israel 9.7M

   Despite its size, it has the world's highest number of museums per capita.

5. Greater Tokyo, the world's largest metro area 37M

   More people than all of Canada, in an area you can cross by train in two hours.

6. The population of Vietnam 100M

   Roughly 40 percent of all Vietnamese share the surname Nguyen.

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