Can you name the world's smallest countries?

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Smallest Countries Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: November 19th, 2008
Category: Geography
Plays: 137,635

Tags: World Quizzes, Country Quizzes, rank, area, smallest

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	Starqueg:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 04:43 GMT	6 points
	Love it, except for the pairs answers with and in them. I seem to remember one and not the other.

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	yankeessuck8991:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 06:11 GMT	17 points
	alas jason, you are wrong. in the countries quiz, saint vincent is accepted for saint vincent and the grenadines. saint kitts is never accepted for saint kitts and nevis.

	sammyhain2364:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 06:13 GMT	5 points
	24/25 only missed Bahrain. Nice quiz

	cloakedninjas:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 06:51 GMT	9 points
	I was in Bahrain 4 months ago but yet I missed it hmmmmm

	pdu:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 08:28 GMT	2 points
	I missed Singapore for some odd reason - oh well, 24 is enough for me ;)

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 10:50 GMT	5 points
	Got all 25. But then, I've done the Countries of the World and all the respective continent ones, to death here on Sporcle. Those are my favourite. Surprised Vanuatu wasn't here. Probably 26th. lol

	davidr:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 11:11 GMT	19 points
	For people wondering about the next few smallest, they are: 26. Mauritius (2,040km²), 27.Comoros (2,170km²), 28. Luxembourg (2,586km²), 29. Samoa (2,944km²), 30. the Cape Verde islands (4,033km²). Countries 26-29 are already almost as big as countries 1-25 combined.

	davidr:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 11:17 GMT	21 points
	@Vernon G.: Vanuatu is huuuuuge! Bigger than Connecticut on its own. :-) A lot of the Pacific microstates are just clusters of atolls but Vanuatu actually has a few decent-sized islands, including two that would be too big to get on this list even if they were independent countries and another four or five of over 500km². In total, it's 12,200km² and in 39th place, bigger than, for example, Cyprus, the Lebanon and Kosovo; smaller than, for example, Montenegro, Swaziland and Kuwait.

	slw@hwdyk.com:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 13:12 GMT	18 points
	Curse you, Roy Lichtenstein.....because of you I can never spell country #6

	DrumBum88:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 13:54 GMT	8 points
	oh my bad, I thought it was Saint Kitts

	Catherine_F:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 14:22 GMT	6 points
	There's always one Caribbean group that escapes me - this time, Antigua and Barbuda. But not next time ;)

	weizenugb:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 15:24 GMT	27 points
	Vanuatu is enormous! How about a quiz on population density? Tallest mountains in the world? Total GDP? GDP per capita? Oldest countries? Newest countries? Largest capital cities? Smallest capital cities? I love these geography quizzes!!

	davidr:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 15:38 GMT	5 points
	@slw: Well, that's something I've learnt today — I'd always assumed the artist spelt his name the same as the country.

	Bray:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 16:45 GMT	2 points
	Got em all first try, but was insanely stuck on Maldives and Singapore for ages. Also had troubles with Bahrain (thought it was quite large...) and Grenada + Barbados (only got the Saints, A+B and Dominica in that area first romp of it).

	sammyhain2364:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 17:06 GMT	7 points
	I agree that I love the geography quizzes the best. However I also enjoy the sports, music, movies and television ones too. Heck I love this site in general.

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	davidr:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 18:33 GMT	40 points
	As well as population density, we could do Pope-ulation density. The only answer would be the Vatican, with 2.27 Popes per square kilometer. ;-)

	Annie:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 19:54 GMT	7 points
	One certainly must be familiar with island nations to succeed at this quiz. There should be a quiz for smallest nations that are not islands.

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	Vernon Gonsalves:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 21:19 GMT	8 points
	LOL @ Davidr with the pope. @ Annie, I live on one of those island nations (Trinidad & Tobago) so those are easy for me. I second Tim Welch's suggestion. More Geography!

	Jay_D:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 21:44 GMT	3 points
	24/25 on first try. I missed Bahrain.

	magister:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 01:59 GMT	4 points
	@davidr: I got 19 and then gave up with 4 minutes on the board (I do that occasionally) but I think it's funny that I got all 5 of 26-30!

	Tetryl:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:25 GMT	4 points
	I missed Malta, Marshall Islands and Micronesia. Spaced on the first and didn't realize the other two were so tiny. I third that on geography! Because of sporcle, I don't have to feel stupid for not knowing where The Gambia is.

	davidr:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 07:46 GMT	4 points
	@Annie: That's an interesting idea. If I can find statistics for the sizes of countries including only continental landmasses, I'll do that. (So, for example, the mainland of Canada would count towards its area but the hundreds of islands wouldn't. Of course, Canada wouldn't be an answer to this quiz because it's even biger than Vanuatu.) I'm about to go on holiday for two weeks so I probably won't have much time for submitting games until mid-December.

	davidr:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 08:51 GMT	3 points
	@Tim Welch: Those are some great ideas. I don't actually think that mountains would make a good quiz: all but a couple of the hundred tallest mountains in the world are in the Himalayas and its subranges and nobody has heard of any of them apart from Everest, K-2 and maybe Lhotse. (The top ten are Everest, K-2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Nanga Parbat, Annapurna I — yes, Roman numerals for subpeaks!) Smallest capitals would be interesting but might also be hard to find tabulated data for.

	Math Chick:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 16:04 GMT	5 points
	I'm sorry davidr, but didn't you get the memo that you are not allowed to vacation and deprive us of your sporcliness! Sporcliness: A word I just coined meaning a combinations of knowledge, wit and lots of free time : )

	davidr:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 16:11 GMT	2 points
	Awwww, thanks, Math Chick. :-) Don't worry, anyway — I've submitted quite a few quizzes that haven't made it onto the site, yet, including some geography ones on similar lines to the ones that have been suggested in the comments here and elsewhere.

	Annie:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 20:35 GMT	5 points
	@davidr: I wasn't necessarily referring to what you're talking about, I was just talking about not including nations that are exclusively island nations (like the majority of ones on this quiz). Also, a largest island quiz might be cool.

	ZacharyTaylor:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 20:56 GMT	-4 points
	palau you are my enemy...

	Kr!s:	Nov 21st, 2008 at 14:47 GMT	0 points
	I got them all, but I've done the countries of the world quiz to death...

	shel99:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 14:42 GMT	3 points
	awesome quiz. I only got 12/25 and wouldn't have even gotten most of those if I hadn't done countries of the world a few times :) will have to try again!

	ElDavo:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 18:48 GMT	1 point
	Wow. I got two. I knew a couple others that were small but couldn't remember them. A couple more from this list I knew were countries but wouldn't have guessed them. Overall, yeah... I suck.

	Brian:	Nov 26th, 2008 at 00:11 GMT	2 points
	how about a just island nations quiz!

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	cocky:	Dec 31st, 2008 at 15:45 GMT	2 points
	Its interesting that eight countries in Oceania are on this list and a ninth one is in 29th place, yet Australia is the sixth biggest

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	isaac:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	0 points
	I got all 25, but almost didn't remeber Marshall Islands. Got it in there with about 15 seconds left.

	nhrafan:	Feb 9th, 2009 at 05:34 GMT	1 point
	i only got 17, but i tried every country davidr mentioned is in the 26-30 range. if only i could think a little bit smaller...