SortStack #3155 — 2035-01-28

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. 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.

2. The population of San Marino 34K

   Claims to be the world's oldest republic, founded — by tradition — in the year 301.

3. The population of Iceland 390K

   So small that a dating app warns Icelanders if a match is actually their cousin.

4. The population of Cyprus 1.3M

   Its capital, Nicosia, is the world's last divided capital city, split by a UN buffer zone.

5. The population of Latvia 1.9M

   Roughly a third of the country's people live in the capital, Riga.

6. Every human alive when Napoleon crowned himself emperor 1B

   It took all of human history to reach the first billion — and only 220 more years to add seven more.

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