SortStack #3274 — 2035-05-27
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135
Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss military training.
- Voting members of the US House of Representatives 435
Frozen by law since 1929, even though the US population has nearly tripled since.
- The population of Greenland 56K
The world's largest island has fewer residents than a mid-size football stadium has seats.
- San Francisco — the city proper 810K
Smaller in population than Indianapolis, despite its outsized cultural footprint.
- The population of Portugal 10.4M
Once ran a global empire from a country smaller than the US state of Indiana.
- The population of Canada 40M
The world's second-largest country by area has fewer people than Greater Tokyo.