SortStack #1216 — 2029-10-07

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the island nation of Niue 1.9K

   One of the world's largest coral islands, and the first country fully covered by free Wi-Fi.

2. Residents of Saint Helena, Napoleon's island of exile 4.4K

   Until its airport opened in 2017, the only way in was a five-day boat trip from Cape Town.

3. 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.

4. Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, when the Spanish arrived 200K

   Built on a lake and bigger than almost every European city of its day.

5. Berlin — the city proper 3.7M

   Has more bridges than Venice and more museums than rainy days per year.

6. New York City — the five boroughs 8.3M

   If each borough were its own city, four of them would still rank in the US top ten.

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