SortStack #2357 — 2032-11-21
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135
Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss military training.
- Residents of the Falkland Islands 3.7K
Sheep outnumber people there by roughly 130 to one.
- The population of Brunei 450K
The Sultan's palace has 1,788 rooms and opens to the public for three days every year.
- The population of Istanbul 15.6M
The only major city spanning two continents — you can commute between Europe and Asia by ferry.
- The population of Brazil 216M
Home to more Catholics — and more Japanese people outside Japan — than any other country.
- Everyone living on the African continent 1.5B
The youngest continent: the median African is around 19 years old.