SortStack #2952 — 2034-07-09

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. The population of Dominica 73K

   Its mountainous rainforest interior is so rugged that Columbus reportedly described it by crumpling paper.

2. The population of Cape Verde 520K

   More Cape Verdeans live abroad than on the islands themselves.

3. Los Angeles — the city proper 3.9M

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

4. Mumbai — the city proper 12.5M

   Its dabbawalas deliver about 200,000 lunchboxes daily with near-perfect accuracy, no apps involved.

5. Greater Tokyo, the world's largest metro area 37M

   More people than all of Canada, in an area you can cross by train in two hours.

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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