SortStack #3022 — 2034-09-17

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. 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.

2. The population of Malta 540K

   The EU's smallest member squeezes onto islands smaller than Philadelphia.

3. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

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

4. Paris — the city proper, inside the ring road 2.1M

   Smaller than Houston; the greater metro area holds five times as many people.

5. The population of Uruguay 3.4M

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

6. The population of the United Kingdom 68M

   More than a third of everyone in England lives in just the Southeast corner around London.

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