SortStack #1433 — 2030-05-12

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135

   Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss military training.

2. Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240

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

3. 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.

4. The population of Cape Verde 520K

   More Cape Verdeans live abroad than on the islands themselves.

5. The population of Estonia 1.4M

   The first country to allow online voting in national elections, back in 2005.

6. The population of India 1.4B

   Now the world's most populous country — one in six humans is Indian.

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