Smallest Country

[hugoboss]

What is the smallest country in the world?

[ali_alic]

The vatican at .2 square miles, population 770 (I thinks it also has the lowest percentage of woman in its population)  The next smallest is Monaco at .7 square miles

[Clanad]

Vatican City... 0.2 square miles (0.44km2)...

[Clanad]

Hmmm... synchronography strikes again...

[donegal]

i think it's vatican city..it's only 0.2 square miles.i heard that somewhere anyways 

[bernardo]

To be more precise, it's 108.7 acres (1 square mile is 640 acres) which is about 0.16984 square miles.

[Quizmonster]

It depends on what you mean by 'country'. Have a look at this site http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa040600a.htm

where you will find two significant details - I won't call them 'facts', as I have no axe to grind either way. One is that, strictly-speaking, the Vatican itself might not fully qualify as an independent country and the other is that the Knights of Malta's HQ in Rome might equally claim to be a 'country' in some people's eyes.
Yes, I know it's not on any UN etc etc list...so you needn't bother listing reasons why the above is wrong...I'm just suggesting anyone who cares might be interested in the information. 

[Artemis]

Awesome Quizzy

[joko]

there is a place called piel island by barrow in furness,

the owner is apparently technically a king - i don't know whether this constitutes a country but we walked around the edge of this place in about 20 mins - pretty small