Tiny nations

1.    Name the small, but long and thin country that has its borders touching only one country, Senegal, in West Africa. 2.    Name the small European country between Switzerland and Austria that is so small that it is entirely located in the Alps mountain range, but it is richer than many others around it and ruled by a reigning monarch. 3.    Guess another landlocked European country, though not so small at 2,586 sq-km, that touches Belgium, Germany and France. 4.    Name the small nation in Southern Africa, that has a total area of only 17,363 sq-km and borders Mozambique. 5.    Though not a very small country, it is small enough to be entirely within South Africa. Name it. 6.    Name the island nation in the Indian Ocean that is very close to Madagascar and Reunion Island, and was once ruled by the French. 7.    This island nation in the Oceania region actually managed to stay without being colonised by any country and was named Friendly Island by Captain Cook in 1773. 8.    Which island nation, located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, will have all its land territory disappearing if the sea level rises and it has asked Australia and New Zealand to accept its citizens as permanent refugees? Its capital is Tarawa.

Answers:

1.    Gambia 2.    Liechtenstein 3.    Luxembourg 4.    Swaziland 5.    Lesotho 6.    Mauritius 7.    The Kingdom of Tonga, which is the only sovereign monarchy in the Oceania. 8.    The Republic of Kiribati

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