SortStack #1629 — 2030-11-24

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Voting members of the US House of Representatives 435

   Frozen by law since 1929, even though the US population has nearly tripled since.

2. Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K

   Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.

3. The population of Uruguay 3.4M

   Won the first football World Cup in 1930 with fewer people than many single cities.

4. The population of Hong Kong 7.5M

   Has more skyscrapers than any other city on Earth — roughly double New York's count.

5. The New York metropolitan area 19.5M

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

6. The population of Australia 26.6M

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

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