How to look like the smallest country in the world
Five tiny States.
San Marino.
Area of San Marino is 61 square kilometers. The state is surrounded on all sides by Italy, it was founded by a stonemason and a Christian saints named Marin in the year 301 of our era. At least, so the legend goes. Today in the Republic a little more than 33 thousand people.
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The area of this Pacific state in Polynesia 26 square kilometers. It is located on 5 atolls and 4 Islands of the archipelago of Tuvalu. They lived a little more than 12 thousand people. Tuvalu is included in the list of the poorest countries in the world.
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This small country is located on the eponymous coral island in the Pacific ocean. It has an area of 21.3 square kilometers. From Nauru to the equator only 42 km, so the climate is Equatorial monsoon, that is very hot and humid. One of the main problems of the country — a shortage of fresh water.
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As a result the development of phosphorites in the second half of the twentieth century, the country became one of the richest in the world. At the same time, the ecology of the island has been irreparably damaged. Later Nauru for some time into the offshore zone, where even Russia has received deposits of 70 billion U.S. dollars.
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The area of this small country on the Ligurian sea — a total of 2.02 square kilometers. But it’s hard to find someone who’d never heard of him. The Principality famous for the casino Monte-Carlo and the stage of the championship of Formula 1 “Monaco Grand Prix”.
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The smallest state in the world is, of course, the Vatican. Its area is only 0.44 square kilometers. And the length of the state border is 3.2 km But almost all of the sovereign territory of the Holy see, not counting office space, is the gardens of Paradise and the world famous architectural masterpieces — the Cathedral of St. Peter, the Vatican museums, including the Sistine chapel and the Vatican library.
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See also:
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- Small Islands of Europe
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