SortStack #3134 — 2035-01-07

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. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

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

3. The population of Hong Kong 7.5M

   Has more skyscrapers than any other city on Earth — roughly double New York's count.

4. The population of North Korea 26.2M

   Almost exactly the same as Australia's — packed into an area smaller than Mississippi.

5. The population of Canada 40M

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

6. The population of Russia 144M

   The world's largest country by land has fewer people than Bangladesh.

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