SortStack #1426 — 2030-05-05

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of Tokelau, in the South Pacific 1.5K

   The first nation to run on 100 percent solar power, and it has no airport at all.

2. 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.

3. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

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

4. The New York metropolitan area 19.5M

   Its economy alone would rank among the ten largest countries in the world.

5. The population of Australia 26.6M

   Nine in ten Australians live within 50 km of the coast; the interior is nearly empty.

6. The population of Vietnam 100M

   Roughly 40 percent of all Vietnamese share the surname Nguyen.

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