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Challenge: Find Countries, IDs, Populations, Regions, and Sort Them | Sorting Retrieved Data
Introduction to SQL

Challenge: Find Countries, IDs, Populations, Regions, and Sort ThemChallenge: Find Countries, IDs, Populations, Regions, and Sort Them

Task

Write an SQL query to get all id, name, and population, region columns from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order). Then, sort the results first by region from Z to A and then by population from lowest to highest.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

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Section 2. Chapter 10
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Introduction to SQL

Challenge: Find Countries, IDs, Populations, Regions, and Sort ThemChallenge: Find Countries, IDs, Populations, Regions, and Sort Them

Task

Write an SQL query to get all id, name, and population, region columns from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order). Then, sort the results first by region from Z to A and then by population from lowest to highest.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

Everything was clear?

Section 2. Chapter 10
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