SortStack #1643 — 2030-12-08

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240

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

2. The population of Singapore 5.9M

   A city-state smaller than New York City, yet one of the world's busiest ports.

3. Greater Cairo, Egypt's capital region 22M

   Africa's largest metro area sits beside pyramids that were already ancient to Cleopatra.

4. The population of Canada 40M

   The world's second-largest country by area has fewer people than Greater Tokyo.

5. The population of South Korea 52M

   Has the world's lowest birth rate — and the fastest average internet to compensate.

6. The population of the Philippines 117M

   Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.

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