SortStack #2826 — 2034-03-05

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. 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.

2. Athletes who competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics 10.5K

   The first Games with full gender parity: exactly half the quota places went to women.

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. Los Angeles — the city proper 3.9M

   Second-largest US city, yet so spread out it covers more land than 20 Manhattans.

5. Rio de Janeiro — the city proper 6.7M

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

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

   All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

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