SortStack #3316 — 2035-07-08

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Capacity of London's Royal Albert Hall 5.3K

   The Beatles, Einstein, and Muhammad Ali all appeared on its stage.

2. The population of Samoa 220K

   In 2011 it skipped December 30 entirely, jumping across the date line to trade with Australia.

3. The population of Brunei 450K

   The Sultan's palace has 1,788 rooms and opens to the public for three days every year.

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. London — the city proper 8.9M

   Technically the City of London has only about 8,000 residents; the rest is Greater London.

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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