The World's Smallest Countries

The 17 Small Countries of Less Than 200 Square Miles in Area

This is a comprehensive listing of the world's seventeen independent smallest countries, from smallest to largest. They each contain less than 200 square miles in area. If we combined the land area of these 17 countries, we would have a country just a bit larger than the state Rhode Island.

1. Vatican City - 0.2 square miles
2. Monaco - 0.7 square miles
3. Nauru - 8.5 square miles
4. Tuvalu - 9 square miles
5. San Marino - 24 square miles
6. Liechtenstein - 62 square miles
7. Marshall Islands - 70 square miles
8. Saint Kitts and Nevis - 104 square miles
9. Seychelles - 107 square miles
10. Maldives - 115 square miles
11. Malta - 122 square miles
12. Grenada - 133 square miles
13. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 150 square miles
14. Barbados - 166 square miles
15. Antigua and Barbuda - 171 square miles
16. Andorra - 180 square miles
17. Palau - 191 square miles

More details here: http://geography.about.com/cs/countries/a/smallcountries.htm

 

so of them is rich though....and # 12 is my personal favorite.

 

I have been to an island country that is not on the list, but it's 5 sq. miles, and has a population ~1500 people. Great diving there

 

in what part of the world? it might have been a chain of islands that go under the name of one place like hawaii or the bahamas.

 

No, it's actually right next door to Nevis in the Caribbean. It's called Saba. Unlike Nevis and St. Kitts, it's a part of the Dutch Caribbean - Nevis and St. Kitts are under English rule.

Although it used to be part of the Caribbean called the Netherland Antilles, along with St. Maarten and other islands. Maybe that's why it's not on the list.

 

If you want to be a technical bitch about it, Saba did not become a country when the Antilles was disolved. It is now actually a municipality of the Netherlands or in some ways similar to what people know as a 'territory'.

 

That's me, the technical bitch. ahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Wouldn't then St. Kitts and Nevis be known as a 'territory'? Meh I don't actually care.

 

Not sure about that one.. as long as you see a place and enjoy it and its people, who cares about the legal nitty gritty!

 

hey all a place needs is nice weather and beautiful women and i'm fine with it.