sort associative array in awk - help?

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Hi all, I have an associative array in awk that gets populated like this...

chr_count[$3]++

When I try to print my chr_counts I use this:

for (i in chr_count) {
    print i,":",chr_count[i];
}

But not surprisingly, the order of i is not sorted in any way. Is there an easy way to iterate over the sorted "keys" of chr_count?

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