SortStack #1335 — 2030-02-03

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Sitting United States senators 100

   Two per state since 1789 — the chamber only grows when a new state joins the union.

2. Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240

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

3. Residents of the Falkland Islands 3.7K

   Sheep outnumber people there by roughly 130 to one.

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. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

   Smaller in population than Indianapolis, despite its outsized cultural footprint.

6. Muslims worldwide 1.9B

   The largest Muslim population lives not in the Middle East but in Indonesia.

← All puzzles · Play today’s SortStack