SortStack #1202 — 2029-09-23

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Pitcairn Islands 47

   Nearly all are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers who hid there in 1790.

2. Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240

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

3. Paris — the city proper, inside the ring road 2.1M

   Smaller than Houston; the greater metro area holds five times as many people.

4. The population of Brazil 216M

   Home to more Catholics — and more Japanese people outside Japan — than any other country.

5. The European Union, all member states combined 449M

   Twenty-seven countries, twenty-four official languages, one market.

6. People with an Instagram account 2B

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

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