SortStack #1734 — 2031-03-09

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 San Marino 34K

   Claims to be the world's oldest republic, founded — by tradition — in the year 301.

3. The population of Latvia 1.9M

   Roughly a third of the country's people live in the capital, Riga.

4. Greater Tokyo, the world's largest metro area 37M

   More people than all of Canada, in an area you can cross by train in two hours.

5. The population of the Philippines 117M

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

6. Every human alive at the height of the Roman Empire 300M

   Fewer people than live in the United States today — across the entire planet.

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