SortStack #2693 — 2033-10-23

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. The population of Bermuda 64K

   There are no rivers or lakes — homes harvest rainwater on white limestone roofs by law.

2. Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, when the Spanish arrived 200K

   Built on a lake and bigger than almost every European city of its day.

3. The population of Bhutan 780K

   Measures national success in Gross National Happiness, and is carbon-negative.

4. The population of Uruguay 3.4M

   Won the first football World Cup in 1930 with fewer people than many single cities.

5. The population of Spain 48M

   Hosts more bars per inhabitant than any other EU country.

6. Every human alive when Napoleon crowned himself emperor 1B

   It took all of human history to reach the first billion — and only 220 more years to add seven more.

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