SortStack #2014 — 2031-12-14
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Seats on Wimbledon's Centre Court 15K
The retractable roof takes about ten minutes to close — rain delays used to last days.
- Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, when the Spanish arrived 200K
Built on a lake and bigger than almost every European city of its day.
- The population of Jamaica 2.8M
Has won more Olympic sprint medals per capita than any nation in history.
- The population of Hong Kong 7.5M
Has more skyscrapers than any other city on Earth — roughly double New York's count.
- Greater Shanghai 29M
Its metro system, opened only in 1993, is already the longest in the world.
- The population of Japan 124M
Sells more adult diapers than baby diapers — a snapshot of the world's oldest population.