SortStack #1300 — 2029-12-30

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. The population of Vatican City 760

   Many of its citizens don't live inside the walls — they're diplomats posted abroad.

2. 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.

3. People who have ever stood on the summit of Mount Everest 6.9K

   Kami Rita Sherpa has been up more than 30 times — roughly one in every 230 summits is his.

4. Ancient Rome at the height of the empire 1M

   No European city reached a million residents again until London, around 1800.

5. The population of Vietnam 100M

   Roughly 40 percent of all Vietnamese share the surname Nguyen.

6. The population of Indonesia 277M

   The world's largest archipelago nation and largest Muslim-majority population.

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