SortStack #1727 — 2031-03-02

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

   Smaller in population than Indianapolis, despite its outsized cultural footprint.

2. Ancient Rome at the height of the empire 1M

   No European city reached a million residents again until London, around 1800.

3. The population of Hong Kong 7.5M

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

4. The population of the Netherlands 18M

   The world's second-largest food exporter by value, from a country the size of Maryland.

5. The population of the United Kingdom 68M

   More than a third of everyone in England lives in just the Southeast corner around London.

6. The population of Indonesia 277M

   The world's largest archipelago nation and largest Muslim-majority population.

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