Smallest countries in the world — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of smallest countries in the world, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
Total area, sovereign states only. The whole of number one fits inside a golf course, and its head of state is elected by cardinals.
Ranked from published, countable figures.
100 entries, in order.
- Vatican City
- Monaco
- Nauru
- Tuvalu
- San Marino
- Liechtenstein
- Marshall Islands
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Maldives
- Malta
- Grenada
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Barbados
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Seychelles
- Palau
- Andorra
- Saint Lucia
- Micronesia
- Singapore
- Tonga
- Dominica
- Bahrain
- Kiribati
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Comoros
- Mauritius
- Luxembourg
- Samoa
- Cape Verde
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Brunei
- Cyprus
- Lebanon
- Jamaica
- Gambia
- Qatar
- Vanuatu
- Montenegro
- Bahamas
- Timor-Leste
- Eswatini
- Kuwait
- Fiji
- Slovenia
- El Salvador
- Israel
- Belize
- Djibouti
- North Macedonia
- Rwanda
- Haiti
- Burundi
- Equatorial Guinea
- Albania
- Solomon Islands
- Armenia
- Lesotho
- Belgium
- Moldova
- Guinea-Bissau
- Taiwan
- Bhutan
- Switzerland
- Netherlands
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Dominican Republic
- Slovakia
- Costa Rica
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- Togo
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Sri Lanka
- Georgia
- Ireland
- Sierra Leone
- Panama
- Czechia
- United Arab Emirates
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Serbia
- Jordan
- Portugal
- Hungary
- South Korea
- Iceland
- Guatemala
- Cuba
- Bulgaria
- Liberia
- Honduras
- Benin
- Eritrea
- Malawi
- North Korea
- Nicaragua
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