The smallest three countries and some specific situations.

The smallest country: Vatican (0.44 square kilometers) Name: Vatican City-State. Area: 0.44 square kilometers. Population: 1380, with only 540 permanent residents. Mainly Italians. Official languages: Italian and Latin. Religion: Catholicism. Currency unit: euro and lira. International telephone area code: 379.

Capital: Vaticano. National flower: Bai Baihe's national flag: square, consisting of two vertical rectangles of gold and silver. Legend has it that gold and silver are the colors of two keys of St. Peter, one of the disciples of Jesus 12. The white flag on the right is painted with the imperial emblem of Pope Paul VI. National emblem: the emblem of the Pope, which is the symbol of the Vatican city-state. This is a coat of arms. The shield is red, with two crossed keys and the Pope's triple crown. Red was once the color of the Catholic church in history; Legend has it that there are two keys, gold and silver, which Christ gave to St. Peter (one of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the Bible), symbolizing giving him all the power in heaven and earth; Triple crown is the combination of bishop crown and human crown. The Pope claims to be the representative of Christ in the world. The Pope is the head of the Vatican and has the highest legislative, judicial and administrative power, so the crown is triple. Pope: Joseph Ratzinger was elected as the 265th Catholic Pope, Benedict XVI, in April 2005. Physical geography: With an area of 0.44 square kilometers, it is the smallest country in the world. Vatican Heights, located in the northwest corner of Rome, Italy. The territory includes St. Peter's Square, St. Peter's Cathedral, Vatican Palace and Vatican Museum. The territory is roughly triangular, except St. Peter's Square in the southeast of the city. The national border is marked by the ancient Vatican city wall. It belongs to the subtropical Mediterranean climate.

Pope: In the 265th papal election on April 19, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as the 265th Catholic Pope of the Mother Church. According to church practice, he was renamed Benedict XVI (265) and was the eighth German Pope of the Roman Church. Monaco ranks second (1.95 km2). The name of Monaco (La princip autéde Monaco；; ; Principality of Monaco)

Interpretation of the country name The country has the same name as the capital. It is said that Mononigo tribe settled here in the 6th century BC, hence its name.

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The national flag is rectangular with an aspect ratio of 5: 4. The flag surface consists of two parallel and equal horizontal rectangles: red on the top and white on the bottom. Red and white colors come from the color of the Prince's Flag, the head of state of the Principality, and are also the traditional colors of the country. The prince's flag is white, with the prince's badge painted in the middle. The shield pattern on the badge consists of red and white. National emblem, prince emblem. This is a cloak. There is a crown on the cloak, and the shield in the cloak is made up of red and white, with white characters on a white background and 15 red diamonds on it. On each side of the shield, there is a Monegasque monk with a long sword. The shield is decorated with ribbons, and a medal of St. Charles hangs below it. The ribbons on both sides of the medal say "God helps me govern the country".

National motto Deo juvante (Latin, God's help is with me)

It covers an area of 1.95 square kilometers, of which about 0.4 square kilometers is reclaimed from the sea, making it one of the few "China countries" in the world.

The total population is 32,796 (in 2008), and the population density is16,398 /km2, of which Monaco nationality accounts for 16%, French nationality accounts for 47%, Italian nationality accounts for 16%, and British, Swiss, German and Belgian nationality accounts for 265,438. The official language is French, and Italian, English and Monegasque are widely used. More than 90% of the population believes in Catholicism.

Monaco, the capital.

The head of state, Prince Albert II, ascended the throne on July 6, 2005.

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Geography is located in the southwest of Europe, surrounded by France on three sides and bordering the Mediterranean Sea on the south. The border line is 4.5 kilometers long and the coastline is 5. 16 kilometers long. The terrain is long and narrow, about 3 kilometers long from east to west, and the narrowest point from north to south is only 200 meters. The territory is hilly with an average elevation of less than 500 meters. It belongs to the subtropical Mediterranean climate, with dry and cool summer and humid and warm winter. The annual average temperature is 16℃, and the annual average precipitation is 500-600 mm.

National bird rooster third place: Nauru (24 square kilometers) Country name: Republic of Nauru.

Independence Day: 65438+1October 3 1 (1968)

National flag: it is a horizontal rectangle with an aspect ratio of 2:1. The national flag is blue with a yellow stripe in the middle and a white 12 star in the lower left corner. The yellow stripe symbolizes the equator, the blue in the upper part symbolizes the blue sky, the blue in the lower part symbolizes the ocean, and the cape star 12 symbolizes the original 12 tribe in Nauru. National emblem: the central pattern is the coat of arms. The upper part of the shield consists of small squares, in which the cross-linked triangle pattern is the symbol of phosphate miners. On the left of the lower part of the shield is a frigate bird, and on the right is a "Tomano" green branch flower. At the top of the coat of arms is a white 12 pointed star. The ribbon above the star reads "Nauru" and is decorated with green coconut leaves and blue banana leaves on both sides. The ribbon at the bottom says "God's will comes first" in English.

National motto: God's will comes first (English, the Lord's will is supreme)

National dignitaries: President Marcus Stephen, who took office in February 2007.

Population: 13000(2006 statistics). Among them, Nauruans account for 58%, South Pacific islanders account for 26%, and immigrants are mainly Europeans and China. The national language of Nauru is English, which is widely used. 70% of the residents are Christians and 30% are Catholics.

Capital: There is no official capital, and government agencies are located in Renya District.

Politics: * * and presidential system. The president is the head of state and government and is elected by the parliament. Parliament is unicameral. Member 18, with a term of three years.

Diplomacy: pursuing a non-aligned policy. Advocate the development of friendly relations with other countries. Nauru is a member of the South Pacific Forum and the South Pacific Commission. Nauru signed the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty on July 1986. Nauru was admitted to the United Nations in September.

Common currency: Australian dollar Physical geography: Nauru is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about 4 1 km from the equator in the north, 4 160 km from Hawaii in the east, and 4,000 km from the Solomon Islands to Sydney, Australia in the southwest. Covering an area of 24 square kilometers, it is an oval coral island with a total length of 6 kilometers, a width of 4 kilometers and a maximum elevation of 70 meters. Three fifths of the island is covered with phosphate. It has a tropical rainforest climate. Nauru's economy mainly depends on the exploitation and export of phosphate.

Nauru has a tropical rain forest climate, and there are no rivers in China. The average daily temperature is around 30℃. In terms of area, Nauru is the smallest of all independent countries. However, its per capita national income is high, and its national welfare is not inferior to that of western countries. Free services such as housing, lighting, telephone and medical care are provided all over the country. For thousands of years, countless seabirds have come to inhabit this island, leaving a lot of bird droppings on the island. After years of chemical changes, bird droppings have become a layer of high-quality fertilizer with a thickness of 10 meter, which is called "phosphate rock". 80% of the country's land is rich in this mineral deposit, and Nauru people "get rich" by phosphate rock, with an average annual income of 8,500 US dollars.