SortStack #2896 — 2034-05-14

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. People who have ever stood on the summit of Mount Everest 6.9K

   Kami Rita Sherpa has been up more than 30 times — roughly one in every 230 summits is his.

2. The population of Luxembourg 660K

   Nearly half its workforce commutes in daily from France, Belgium, and Germany.

3. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

   Smaller in population than Indianapolis, despite its outsized cultural footprint.

4. The population of Qatar 2.7M

   Citizens are outnumbered roughly eight to one by foreign workers and expats.

5. 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.

6. The population of Egypt 112M

   About 95 percent of Egyptians live on just 5 percent of the land, hugging the Nile.

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