SortStack #3477 — 2035-12-16

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Sitting United States senators 100

   Two per state since 1789 — the chamber only grows when a new state joins the union.

2. Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135

   Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss military training.

3. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

   Smaller in population than Indianapolis, despite its outsized cultural footprint.

4. Greater Delhi, India's capital region 33M

   Adds roughly the population of a mid-size European city every single year.

5. The population of the Philippines 117M

   Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.

6. The European Union, all member states combined 449M

   Twenty-seven countries, twenty-four official languages, one market.

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