SortStack #1475 — 2030-06-23

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Paris — the city proper, inside the ring road 2.1M

   Smaller than Houston; the greater metro area holds five times as many people.

2. The population of Qatar 2.7M

   Citizens are outnumbered roughly eight to one by foreign workers and expats.

3. The population of Israel 9.7M

   Despite its size, it has the world's highest number of museums per capita.

4. Mumbai — the city proper 12.5M

   Its dabbawalas deliver about 200,000 lunchboxes daily with near-perfect accuracy, no apps involved.

5. Every human alive at the height of the Roman Empire 300M

   Fewer people than live in the United States today — across the entire planet.

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

   All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

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