SortStack #1650 — 2030-12-15

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Pitcairn Islands 47

   Nearly all are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers who hid there in 1790.

2. Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135

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

3. People who stay in Antarctica through the winter 1.1K

   Once the last plane leaves in March, even medical evacuation can be impossible until spring.

4. 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.

5. The population of Japan 124M

   Sells more adult diapers than baby diapers — a snapshot of the world's oldest population.

6. Muslims worldwide 1.9B

   The largest Muslim population lives not in the Middle East but in Indonesia.

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