which country has the smallest population?
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the Vatican city ,of course has the smallest population by the virtue of being the smallest nation.
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Vatican city is the smallest (0.2 square miles)\nMonaco is the second smallest (0.7 square miles)\nNauru is the third smallest (8.5 square miles)\n\nMany other small countries at the website below.
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According to this site (http://geography.about.com/cs/countries/a/smallcountries.htm), it is the Vatican City. This site lists 17 of the world's smallest countries.
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Vatican City - 0.2 square miles - The world's smallest state, the Vatican has a population of 770,
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I found this on the net...take it for what it's worth:\n\n"The smallest island in the world - according to the Guiness Book of Records - is Bishop Rock. It lies at the most south-westerly part of the United Kingdom. It is one of 1040 islands around Britain and only has a lighthouse on it. In 1861, the British government set out the parameters for classifying an island. It was decided that if it was inhabited, the size was immaterial. However, if it was uninhabited, it had to be "the summer's pasturage of at least one sheep" - which is about two acres.\n\nGoing by the above parameters, most of the 179 584 "islands" around Finland and the almost 200 000 around Canada would not match Indonesia as the country with the most islands. In fact, Indonesia consists only of islands - 13 667 of them, 6000 of which are inhabited."
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Norway. \nThey are not in the European Union
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Countries can be that small. Look at Vatican City and Luxemburg, they're small also. It just matters by how many people live there and Monaco doesn't accept new citizens so technically we can never become Monacans.
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The Vatican City, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's smallest country. Located entirely within the city of Rome, Italy, the Vatican City (also known as the Holy See) is 0.2 square miles (0.44 km2) in area.\nSome argue that The Sovereign Military Order Of Malta is actually the world's smallest country, but it is not at all true.
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Monaco has the highest density of people. China has the most people but, it is also very large lowering the population per acre
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The officially recognized name of the Vatican is "The Holy See", nearly a fourth (1/4) the size of the next smallest country, Monaco.
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there are quite a few.\n\nIn north america: Bermuda\nIn the middle east we have Palestine\nIn asia: Chechnya, Tibet\nIn the lesser antilles, caribbean: Aruba, Anguilla\nIn latin america there is Puerto Rico\nIn europe we have Greenland, Euskadi, Catayuna\nIn the African region we have the island of Reunion\nPacific: Nauru,\n\nThere are some micro islands that do not have a developed society and cannot be called Nations/Countries. These usually have less than 50,000 population and have a high inmigration/emigration rate.
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Both the largest and the smallest fish in the world are found in the Philippines\n\nPandaka pygmaea  (dwarf pygmy) is the smallest\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/a_yee/pgi/fish.html
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Japan is the wealthiest, with a GDP of about $4.6 trillion, or $36,000 per person.  The poorest is East Timor, with a GDP of only $332 million.  (Those figures aren't exact, because there is a lot of variability in how the numbers are calculated).  The poorest on a per-capita basis is Myanmar, at $219/person.
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SAN MARINO is the 3rd smallest country in the world and the oldest republic. Special attractions include events and performances of Medieval Days, and the San Marino Grand Prix. This is the world's 3rd smallest country and oldest republic.\n\nOfficial language Italian \nCapital San Marino \nLargest City Serravalle \nCaptains Regent: Claudio Muccioli and Antonello Bacciocchi \nArea\n - Total\n - % water Ranked 190th\n61 km²\nNegligible \nPopulation\n - Total (2000)\n - Density Ranked 190th\n27,336\n448/km² \nIndependence 3 September 301 \nHDI (2003) NA – unranked \nCurrency Euro (€) \nTime zone\n - in summer CET (UTC+1)\nCEST (UTC+2) \nNational anthem Inno Nazionale (no words) Music \nInternet TLD .sm \nCalling Code +378 (+0549 from Italy
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It is a very small country near Brazil. Its main export is seamen.
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You can come to lots of different ways to answer this question.  I'll give in in GDP (Gross Domestic Product--the total economic output of a country in a year) divided by its population.  Using this formula, if we take the nominal GDP, the poorest country is Burundi, with a $90 per person GDP.  If we take the GDP adjusted for the cost of living in a country, it's East Timor, at $400 international dollars a person (an international dollar is how much a US dollar is worth scaled by its purchasing power)
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Why do so many people think it is Rhode Island? Because it is the smallest state geographically? \n \nWyoming is the smallest state in population, per the census of 2000.\n  \nRhode Island ranks 43rd...in other words, seven states are smaller. \n \nTop ten:\n    California                 33,871,648  \n    Texas                      20,851,820  \n    New York                   18,976,457   \n    Florida                    15,982,378  \n    Illinois                   12,419,293  \n    Pennsylvania               12,281,054   \n    Ohio                       11,353,140  \n    Michigan                    9,938,444    \n    New Jersey                  8,414,350    \n    Georgia                     8,186,453  \n\nBottom ten:\n    New Hampshire               1,235,786  \n    Hawaii                      1,211,537   \n    Rhode Island                1,048,319  \n    Montana                       902,195  \n    Delaware                      783,600   \n    South Dakota                  754,844  \n    North Dakota                  642,200    \n    Alaska                        626,932  \n    Vermont                       608,827    \n    Wyoming                       493,782