SortStack #1958 — 2031-10-19

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. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

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

3. Los Angeles — the city proper 3.9M

   Second-largest US city, yet so spread out it covers more land than 20 Manhattans.

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 Argentina 46M

   Nearly two-thirds of Argentines have Italian ancestry — hence the accent in their Spanish.

6. The population of Brazil 216M

   Home to more Catholics — and more Japanese people outside Japan — than any other country.

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