SortStack #2707 — 2033-11-06

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of Tokelau, in the South Pacific 1.5K

   The first nation to run on 100 percent solar power, and it has no airport at all.

2. Residents of Saint Helena, Napoleon's island of exile 4.4K

   Until its airport opened in 2017, the only way in was a five-day boat trip from Cape Town.

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. Amsterdam — the city proper 920K

   Home to more bicycles than people, and roughly 12,000 bikes are fished out of canals yearly.

5. The population of Cyprus 1.3M

   Its capital, Nicosia, is the world's last divided capital city, split by a UN buffer zone.

6. 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.

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