SortStack #1685 — 2031-01-19

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Amsterdam — the city proper 920K

   Home to more bicycles than people, and roughly 12,000 bikes are fished out of canals yearly.

2. The population of Djibouti 1.1M

   Hosts military bases for the US, China, France, Japan, and Italy simultaneously — a geopolitical crossroads.

3. The population of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.2M

   Its coastline is just 20 km long — one of the shortest of any coastal country.

4. Rio de Janeiro — the city proper 6.7M

   Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning so often it carries its own lightning rods.

5. The population of Cuba 11M

   Has one of the highest doctor-to-patient ratios in the world and exports physicians globally.

6. The population of the United States 335M

   If American pets formed a country, its population would rival the human one.

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