SortStack #2042 — 2032-01-11

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 Dominica 73K

   Its mountainous rainforest interior is so rugged that Columbus reportedly described it by crumpling paper.

3. The population of Cape Verde 520K

   More Cape Verdeans live abroad than on the islands themselves.

4. Amsterdam — the city proper 920K

   Home to more bicycles than people, and roughly 12,000 bikes are fished out of canals yearly.

5. The population of Canada 40M

   The world's second-largest country by area has fewer people than Greater Tokyo.

6. The population of Bangladesh 173M

   More people than Russia, in an area smaller than the US state of Iowa.

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