SortStack #3358 — 2035-08-19
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- The population of Nauru 12.5K
The world's smallest island nation was once, briefly, the richest country per capita on Earth.
- The population of Bermuda 64K
There are no rivers or lakes — homes harvest rainwater on white limestone roofs by law.
- Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, when the Spanish arrived 200K
Built on a lake and bigger than almost every European city of its day.
- Greater Shanghai 29M
Its metro system, opened only in 1993, is already the longest in the world.
- The population of Germany 84M
The EU's most populous country — yet its capital is only its third-densest city.
- The population of Japan 124M
Sells more adult diapers than baby diapers — a snapshot of the world's oldest population.