SortStack #1181 — 2029-09-02

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. 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.

2. Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K

   Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.

3. Amsterdam — the city proper 920K

   Home to more bicycles than people, and roughly 12,000 bikes are fished out of canals yearly.

4. Greater Cairo, Egypt's capital region 22M

   Africa's largest metro area sits beside pyramids that were already ancient to Cleopatra.

5. The population of Japan 124M

   Sells more adult diapers than baby diapers — a snapshot of the world's oldest population.

6. The population of Bangladesh 173M

   More people than Russia, in an area smaller than the US state of Iowa.

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