SortStack #2084 — 2032-02-22
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- The population of Reykjavík 140K
The world's northernmost capital heats its streets and pavements with volcanic geothermal water.
- The population of Singapore 5.9M
A city-state smaller than New York City, yet one of the world's busiest ports.
- Greater Delhi, India's capital region 33M
Adds roughly the population of a mid-size European city every single year.
- The population of the Philippines 117M
Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.
- Every human alive when Napoleon crowned himself emperor 1B
It took all of human history to reach the first billion — and only 220 more years to add seven more.
- The population of India 1.4B
Now the world's most populous country — one in six humans is Indian.