Category: Smallest Countries of the World

               Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country situated in the western Balkan Peninsula of Europe.                The Bosnian region in the north is mountainous, and covered with thick forests. The Herzegovina region in the south is largely rugged, flat farmland. The capital of…

               Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country on the north western edge of the Balkan Peninsula in Southern Europe, formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia. Five countries border Croatia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia, and it shares a sea border with Italy. Its…

               Costa Rica is a small country in Central America. It is bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.                Its constitution of 1949 provides for a…

               The Slovak Republic is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Europe that is bordered by Austria and the Czech Republic in west, by Hungary in south, by Poland in north, and the Ukraine in east. Slovakia’s territory spans about 49,000 square kilometers, and is mostly mountainous. The capital…

               Swaziland, officially Kingdom of Swaziland is a country in the eastern flank of South Africa, where it adjoins Mozambique.                The landlocked Kingdom of Swaziland is the last absolute monarchy in Africa. Swaziland became an independent state in 1968, after gaining its…

               Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, is a relatively new nation, situated in the eastern half of the island of Timor, at the eastern ‘end’ of the Lesser Sunda Islands, north of the Timor Sea and Australia. The country is bordered by Indonesia in the west, and the…

            The Bahamas are a coral archipelago of around 700 islands and more than 2,000 rocks and cays in the West Atlantic south-east of the coast of Florida, USA, and northeast of Cuba.             Formerly a British colony the Bahamas became an independent country within…

               Montenegro is a small country in south-eastern Europe. Podgorica is the capital and largest city of the country.                For much of the 20th century, Montenegro was a part of Yugoslavia and from 2003 to 2006; it was a component of the…

               Located in the region of Oceania, an island country Vanuatu covers 12,189 square kilometres of land. It consists of a chain of 13 principal, and many smaller islands. The islands were initially home to the Melanesians for over 2,500 years. Then, in the 15th century, European explorers and…

               The state of Qatar is an independent emirate, an Arabic Islamic monarchy, in the Gulf region. It occupies the small Qatar Peninsula on the north-eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.                Before World War II, Qatar was one of the world’s poorest…