Tag: Country Facts

What Is the Smallest Country in the World? Vatican City, Explained

Posted on August 17, 2026 by Jordan Walker

You can walk across the smallest country on Earth in about ten minutes, and you will not cross a border checkpoint to do it. Vatican City sits inside Rome, surrounded on almost every side by Italian streets, and it has been a sovereign state for less than a century. Below are the measurements, the countries […]

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Country Records Explained: The Biggest, Smallest, Oldest and Strangest

Posted on August 13, 2026 by Jordan Walker

Most country records come with an asterisk. The largest country by land area is settled beyond argument, and then the third-place spot turns into a dispute between China and the United States that depends on whether you count coastal waters. The oldest country has at least six credible answers depending on what you mean by […]

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