SortStack #2252 — 2032-08-08

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K

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

2. The population of Cyprus 1.3M

   Its capital, Nicosia, is the world's last divided capital city, split by a UN buffer zone.

3. The population of Uruguay 3.4M

   Won the first football World Cup in 1930 with fewer people than many single cities.

4. Greater Tokyo, the world's largest metro area 37M

   More people than all of Canada, in an area you can cross by train in two hours.

5. The population of Egypt 112M

   About 95 percent of Egyptians live on just 5 percent of the land, hugging the Nile.

6. Everyone living on the African continent 1.5B

   The youngest continent: the median African is around 19 years old.

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