SortStack #2539 — 2033-05-22

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Voting members of the US House of Representatives 435

   Frozen by law since 1929, even though the US population has nearly tripled since.

2. The population of Nauru 12.5K

   The world's smallest island nation was once, briefly, the richest country per capita on Earth.

3. 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.

4. The population of Samoa 220K

   In 2011 it skipped December 30 entirely, jumping across the date line to trade with Australia.

5. The population of the United Kingdom 68M

   More than a third of everyone in England lives in just the Southeast corner around London.

6. The European Union, all member states combined 449M

   Twenty-seven countries, twenty-four official languages, one market.

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