SortStack #2511 — 2033-04-24
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Seats on Wimbledon's Centre Court 15K
The retractable roof takes about ten minutes to close — rain delays used to last days.
- Amsterdam — the city proper 920K
Home to more bicycles than people, and roughly 12,000 bikes are fished out of canals yearly.
- The population of Latvia 1.9M
Roughly a third of the country's people live in the capital, Riga.
- Greater Cairo, Egypt's capital region 22M
Africa's largest metro area sits beside pyramids that were already ancient to Cleopatra.
- The population of Egypt 112M
About 95 percent of Egyptians live on just 5 percent of the land, hugging the Nile.
- The population of China 1.4B
Lost its crown as the world's most populous country in 2023 after centuries at the top.