SortStack #2280 — 2032-09-05

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Capacity of London's Royal Albert Hall 5.3K

   The Beatles, Einstein, and Muhammad Ali all appeared on its stage.

2. Capacity of Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium 78.8K

   For the 1950 World Cup final it crammed in roughly 200,000 — still the record football crowd.

3. The population of Cape Verde 520K

   More Cape Verdeans live abroad than on the islands themselves.

4. London — the city proper 8.9M

   Technically the City of London has only about 8,000 residents; the rest is Greater London.

5. The population of Bangladesh 173M

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

6. Every human alive at the height of the Roman Empire 300M

   Fewer people than live in the United States today — across the entire planet.

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