Trivia:What Country...

[Mike Wooldridge]

...is the world's smallest (in area) republic?

[Hans Deventer]

Andorra?
Singapore?

[Gary Swartzlander]

Nauru?

Can't tell you much else.

[Brian Blankenship]

Monoco?

[Cecil Wallace]

I almost agree that Monaco is the smallest.
But..... if you consider Vatican City as a country, I believe that it is actually smaller.

[Bruce Carriker]

Well, Vatican City IS a sovereign state.

[Bruce Carriker]

Vatican City is the smallest. Monaco is second. They are both less than one square mile.

[Jim Franklin]

Others in what geographers call the "postage stamp" nations are San Marino and Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein comes up every four years at the Winter Olympics because it often has athletes in skiing win medals.

[Mike Wooldridge]

Others in what geographers call the "postage stamp" nations are San Marino and Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein comes up every four years at the Winter Olympics because it often has athletes in skiing win medals.
We have a WINNER! Congratulations JIM FRANKLIN! San Marino is the world's smallest REPUBLIC and fifth-smallest country. http://www.flagfocus.info/worldflags-large/flag-SanMarinoState-lg.gif

[Ryan Scott]

Lichtenstein comes up every four years at the Winter Olympics because it often has athletes in skiing win medals.

I think you mean Luxembourg. Marc Gihardelli won a number of international skiing medals. Only recently have I seen anyone from Liechtenstein competing internationally.

[Gina Stevenson]

I think you mean Luxembourg. Marc Gihardelli won a number of international skiing medals. Only recently have I seen anyone from Liechtenstein competing internationally.

Is that possibly Ghiradelli, and is he from the chocolatiers' family? ;)

[Ryan Scott]

Probably not; I think I misspelled it.

[Gina Stevenson]

Probably not; I think I misspelled it.

Yes, but it was close enough to that choco co's name that I amended it to "Ghiradelli" correctly, and still wonder about any connection. ;)

[Jim Franklin]

I have heard Lichtenstein mentioned several times over the years when the Winter Olympics are being telecast. I am very well aware of Luxembourg, but Lichtenstein is much smaller with a lot less population. I go back to listening or watching reports on the Winter Olympics to 1948 since WWII negated them being held in 1944. I remember as a youngster the first time I heard the term "Lichtenstein" I had to look up its location in my dad's 1927 Literary Digest Atlas and Gazeteer.

[Hans Deventer]

Vatican City is no republic, it's rule by a bishop.
Lichtenstein and Monaco are rules by princes.
Luxembourg is rule by the Grand Duke.