SortStack #1965 — 2031-10-26

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. 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.

2. Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K

   Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.

3. The population of Iceland 390K

   So small that a dating app warns Icelanders if a match is actually their cousin.

4. The population of Latvia 1.9M

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

5. Rio de Janeiro — the city proper 6.7M

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

6. The population of North Korea 26.2M

   Almost exactly the same as Australia's — packed into an area smaller than Mississippi.

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