SortStack #3533 — 2036-02-10

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Pitcairn Islands 47

   Nearly all are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers who hid there in 1790.

2. Capacity of the world's largest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad 132K

   It overtook Melbourne Cricket Ground, which had held the title for over a century.

3. The population of Qatar 2.7M

   Citizens are outnumbered roughly eight to one by foreign workers and expats.

4. London — the city proper 8.9M

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

5. The population of Australia 26.6M

   Nine in ten Australians live within 50 km of the coast; the interior is nearly empty.

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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