SortStack #3407 — 2035-10-07

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. People who have ever won a Nobel Prize 975

   Four people won it twice; the Curie family alone collected five medals.

2. The population of Cape Verde 520K

   More Cape Verdeans live abroad than on the islands themselves.

3. Paris — the city proper, inside the ring road 2.1M

   Smaller than Houston; the greater metro area holds five times as many people.

4. The population of the Netherlands 18M

   The world's second-largest food exporter by value, from a country the size of Maryland.

5. The population of Spain 48M

   Hosts more bars per inhabitant than any other EU country.

6. The population of Russia 144M

   The world's largest country by land has fewer people than Bangladesh.

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