SortStack #1272 — 2029-12-02
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- The population of Monaco 38.4K
About one in three residents is a millionaire — the densest concentration of wealth on Earth.
- The population of Brunei 450K
The Sultan's palace has 1,788 rooms and opens to the public for three days every year.
- Amsterdam — the city proper 920K
Home to more bicycles than people, and roughly 12,000 bikes are fished out of canals yearly.
- The population of Singapore 5.9M
A city-state smaller than New York City, yet one of the world's busiest ports.
- Greater Shanghai 29M
Its metro system, opened only in 1993, is already the longest in the world.
- The population of Argentina 46M
Nearly two-thirds of Argentines have Italian ancestry — hence the accent in their Spanish.