Largest Population in Five Countries

# Introduction

In this project, you will learn how to query the population data in the city table and retrieve the top 5 countries or regions with the greatest population.

## 👀 Preview

MariaDB [world]> SOURCE /home/labex/project/getBigPopulation.sql;
+-------------+---------------+
| CountryCode | SumPopulation |
+-------------+---------------+
| CHN         |     175953614 |
| IND         |     123298526 |
| BRA         |      85876862 |
| USA         |      78625774 |
| JPN         |      77965107 |
+-------------+---------------+
5 rows in set (0.007 sec)

## 🎯 Tasks

In this project, you will learn:

- How to access MySQL using the `sudo` command without any password
- How to import data from a SQL file into MySQL
- How to write an SQL query to fetch the top 5 countries or regions with the greatest population
- How to run the SQL query and display the results

## 🏆 Achievements

After completing this project, you will be able to:

- Understand how to work with MySQL databases
- Write SQL queries to retrieve data from a database
- Analyze and interpret population data from the city table