SortStack #1398 — 2030-04-07

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Athletes who competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics 10.5K

   The first Games with full gender parity: exactly half the quota places went to women.

2. The population of Iceland 390K

   So small that a dating app warns Icelanders if a match is actually their cousin.

3. The population of Latvia 1.9M

   Roughly a third of the country's people live in the capital, Riga.

4. Los Angeles — the city proper 3.9M

   Second-largest US city, yet so spread out it covers more land than 20 Manhattans.

5. The population of Norway 5.5M

   Its sovereign wealth fund owns about 1.5 percent of every listed company on Earth.

6. The population of North Korea 26.2M

   Almost exactly the same as Australia's — packed into an area smaller than Mississippi.

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