Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Top 10 Smallest Countires in the World

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.

Sometimes the word country is used to refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times it refers only to states. For example, the CIA World Factbook uses the word in its "Country name" field to refer to "a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states".


Ten

Country

Location

Area

SQ KM

SQ Miles

1

Nauru

Pacific Ocean

21.2

8.2

2

Tuvalu

Pacific Ocean

26.0

10.0

3

Marshall

Pacific Ocean

181.3

70.0

4

St Kitts And Nevis

Caribbean Sea

261.0

100.8

5

Maldives

Mediterranean

298.0

115.1

6

Malta

Indian Ocean

316.0

122.0

7

Grenada

Caribbean Sea

344.0

132.8

8

St. Vincent and The Grendines

Caribbean Sea

389.0

150.2

9

Barbados

Caribbean Sea

431.0

166.4

10

Antigua and Barbuda

Caribbean Sea

442.6

170.9