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Detailed explanation-1: -Based on landmass, Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, measuring just 0.2 square miles, almost 120 times smaller than the island of Manhattan.

Detailed explanation-2: -The three smallest countries in the world are Vatican City, an enclave within Rome, Italy. Monaco, a principality at the Mediterranean coast and an enclave within Southern France, and Nauru, an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

Detailed explanation-3: -Where the Vatican’s power lies in religion, plenty of spending power is held by the tiny country of Monaco, the second smallest country on Earth. Situated along the French Riviera, Monaco is surrounded entirely by France-but it also sits fewer than 10 miles from the Italian border.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. Encircled by a 2-mile border with Italy, Vatican City is an independent city-state that covers just over 100 acres, making it one-eighth the size of New York’s Central Park. Vatican City is governed as an absolute monarchy with the pope at its head.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vatican City (0.19 square miles) Monaco (0.78 square miles) Nauru (8.1 square miles) Tuvalu (10 square miles)