SortStack #3036 — 2034-10-01

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. People who have ever won a Nobel Prize 975

   Four people won it twice; the Curie family alone collected five medals.

2. Seats in the Sydney Opera House's main concert hall 2.7K

   The building's sails were so hard to engineer that the design pre-dated computers able to verify it.

3. The population of Nauru 12.5K

   The world's smallest island nation was once, briefly, the richest country per capita on Earth.

4. The population of Monaco 38.4K

   About one in three residents is a millionaire — the densest concentration of wealth on Earth.

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. The population of Canada 40M

   The world's second-largest country by area has fewer people than Greater Tokyo.

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