SortStack #1867 — 2031-07-20

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135

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

2. Athletes who competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics 10.5K

   The first Games with full gender parity: exactly half the quota places went to women.

3. Capacity of the world's largest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad 132K

   It overtook Melbourne Cricket Ground, which had held the title for over a century.

4. New York City — the five boroughs 8.3M

   If each borough were its own city, four of them would still rank in the US top ten.

5. The population of the Philippines 117M

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

6. People with an Instagram account 2B

   If it were a country, it would be the largest on Earth — by a wide margin.

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