what is the smallest country in the world?

Answer 1

Vatican City.

Answer 2

Sealand, if you can consider it a country, it has only 10 residents and is a fake country.. it's just a little piece of land over water supported by some legs, it's hardly a country and people are claiming to be princes of it, it even has it's own currency, what the hell for? Only 10 people can use it and I'm sure they're a family so what use is that? But how cool would it be to have your own "country" though? Other than that, the smallest "proper country" in the world is the Vatican City, a small state in Italy.

Answer 3

Most people here are actually right. It is the Vatican City.

The smallest country in the world is Vatican City. The nation is only 0.2 square miles. It is surrounded by the city of Roma (Rome), Italy, but is entirely independent.

The Vatican City is located at 12.5º east longitude and just south of 42º north latitude. This is about the central western portion of Italy.

Vatican City is much smaller than Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino, and Luxembourg, even smaller than Monaco, Nauru, and Tuvalu.

Answer 4

Sealand.

In an old article on Yahoo!'s homepage they said it was the smallest country in the world and that it was up for sale.

The area of the old oil platform they use must measure no less than 0.2 sKM if that at all based upon the pictures
of the platform.

Here's a good picture of the platform: http://www.cosmicbuddha.com/blog/archives/images/sealand.jpg

You can see some people on the platform standing, so take a relative size per person (I think there's a woman from what I saw, estimate around 5'6" USM). That'd mean the platform is no more than 50 feet USM or about 20 metres MS. The lenght across can't be seen from picture depth issues.

The reason so many people aren't saying Sealand is because its independence is still disputed to this day. Lots of sites that have population and area counts for countries probably haven't proclaimed it as a sovereign state yet.

Answer 5

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.

Answer 6

A list of the worlds smallest countries
http://geography.about.com/cs/countries/a/smallcountries.htm

Here's the top 5 in pics
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/04/the-5-smallest-countries-in-the-world/

Answer 7

Vatican City. Some say Sealand but it's only declared a country by its owner and no one else.

Here's a list of the smallest 17

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

Answer 8

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, Sealand is only a principality.

Damn, I'm good...

Answer 9

Vatican City, officially "State of the Vatican City", is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome.

At approximately 44 hectares (108.7 acres), it is the smallest independent nation in the world.

Answer 10

Vitican City

Answer 11

It is, in fact, Sealand. It's a man-made island a few miles off the Norfolk coast. I can't remember just how big it is, but it used to be an oil-drilling platform, then it became a sentry post during world war two. After that it was abandoned, and some guy found it and classified it as his own country and proclaimed himself King.

The Navy tried to reclaim it at some point, but they were told to leave, as it was not British soil. Since then, it has been officially recognised as a country, separate from the UK.