SortStack #3323 — 2035-07-15

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K

   Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.

2. Rio de Janeiro — the city proper 6.7M

   Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning so often it carries its own lightning rods.

3. Greater Cairo, Egypt's capital region 22M

   Africa's largest metro area sits beside pyramids that were already ancient to Cleopatra.

4. The population of South Korea 52M

   Has the world's lowest birth rate — and the fastest average internet to compensate.

5. Left-handed people worldwide 800M

   About one in ten humans — a share that has stayed stable for at least 10,000 years of art.

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

   All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

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