The six smallest countries in the world?

These countries are really small, and the smallest is only the combined size of six football fields. Let's briefly introduce these small countries and let everyone know about them.

First place: Vatican The Vatican is the smallest country in the world and an independent country.

Area: 0.44 square kilometers Population: 830 people

Venue: Northwest Highland of Rome, Italy

Vatican is the smallest country in the world today and an independent country in Europe. It is also the center of Catholicism in the world-the seat of the Holy See. It is located on the right bank of the Tiber River, with the surrounding city walls as the national boundary. Palace, church, library, post office, radio station, railway station, airport and other facilities are readily available. The official languages are Italian and Latin. Most residents believe in Catholicism.

Second place: Monaco

Area: 1.96 km2 Population: 35657 (2005)

Location: southern France in the Mediterranean region

Monaco is located in the south of France, surrounded by France in the north, west and east, and bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the south. The border line is 4.5 kilometers long and the coastline is 5. 16 kilometers long. The terrain is long and narrow, about 3 kilometers long from east to west, and the narrowest point from north to south is only 200 meters. The territory is hilly with an average elevation of less than 500 meters. It belongs to the subtropical Mediterranean climate, with dry and cool summer and humid and warm winter. Annual average temperature 16℃, annual average precipitation 500-600 mm Third place: Nauru.

Area: 2 1 km2 Population: 13005 (2005)

Location: south of the equator in the western Pacific.

Nauru is an oval coral island. The coast is steep. The coastline is 30 kilometers. There is a coastal zone with a width of150-300m and an altitude of 30m, which is the only agricultural area in China. In the middle is a platform, with the highest point 64m above sea level. Three fifths of the island is covered with phosphate, and there are no rivers except Buada Salt Lake in the southwest. It has a tropical rainforest climate, with an average annual temperature of 25-35℃ and an annual precipitation of more than 2000 mm.

Nauruans usually live in houses built by the government in coastal lowlands. Because of the hot weather, people dress very simply. Fourth place: Tuvalu.

Area: 26 square kilometers Population: 1 1 ten thousand people.

Location: Located in an island country in the South Pacific.

Tuvalu is made up of nine atolls, the north and south ends of which are 560 kilometers apart, and spread from northwest to southeast in a sea area of about 6,543,800 square kilometers, while the land area is only 26 square kilometers. Because the terrain is extremely low and barren. The water storage area in this area is small, and the soil is not suitable for farming. Sea level rise caused by greenhouse effect poses a very serious threat to Tuvalu. The annual average temperature is 29℃. It belongs to tropical maritime climate. It is the least populous country except the Holy See.

Tuvalu has few natural resources, and its main income comes from foreign aid. The main industries are fishing and tourism, but they are far away, so there are few tourists every year. Fifth place: San Marino

Area: 6 1.2km2 Population: 28 1 17 people.

Location: Adriatic coast north of eastern Italy

San Marino is a landlocked country located in the northeast of Italy, with mountainous terrain. It belongs to the subtropical Mediterranean climate. The annual average temperature is 16℃, the lowest temperature in winter is -2℃, and the highest temperature in summer is 30℃. The average annual precipitation is 880mm.

San Marino is a country within a country, located on the mount titano near Rimini, an Italian coastal city in the Adriatic Sea. There is no border checkpoint here, but there is a door-shaped decoration at the foot of the mountain with a banner that says: Welcome to the ancient country. This is a symbol of San Marino's national boundaries. Sixth place: Liechtenstein area 160 square kilometers.

The population is 34,022 (at the end of June 2003), of which foreigners 1 1645, accounting for 34.2%, mainly Swiss (3,664), Austrian (2,023) and German (1 1). The official language is German. Catholicism is the state religion, with Catholicism accounting for 75.7%, Christianity accounting for 6.9% and other sects 17.4%.

Vaduz, the capital, has a population of 5,000 (end of June 2003). Head of State Hans-Adam II. (From August 15, 2004, Crown Prince alois took the place of Duke Hans-Adam II to handle domestic and international affairs. ) Introduction is a landlocked country located in the middle of the Alps and the Rhine River basin. It borders Switzerland in the west, the Rhine River in the east and Austria in the east. The climate is mild, with an average temperature of 65438+ 1. 1℃ in October and an average temperature of 19.9℃ in July. Liechtenstein people are descendants of Nepalese from aleman who came here after 500 AD. 1719 65438+1October 23rd, founded under the surname of Josef Wenzel Lichtenstein. Column 1806 joined the Rhine Union as a sovereign state, and 18 15 joined the German Union. 1852, Liege signed a tariff treaty with Austria-Hungary, which ended in the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 19 19. 1923, Lebanon and Switzerland signed a tariff treaty, making the Swiss franc the official currency and Lebanon and Switzerland the same economic zone. Liege remained neutral during the two world wars.