SortStack #2504 — 2033-04-17

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Ancient Rome at the height of the empire 1M

   No European city reached a million residents again until London, around 1800.

2. Berlin — the city proper 3.7M

   Has more bridges than Venice and more museums than rainy days per year.

3. Rio de Janeiro — the city proper 6.7M

   Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning so often it carries its own lightning rods.

4. New York City — the five boroughs 8.3M

   If each borough were its own city, four of them would still rank in the US top ten.

5. The population of Portugal 10.4M

   Once ran a global empire from a country smaller than the US state of Indiana.

6. The population of the Philippines 117M

   Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.

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