European microstates
European sovereign states having very small population or very small land area
A European microstate is a microstate that is in the continent of Europe. By microstate is meant by "a country with a population of less than one million people or an area of less than six thousand square kilometers". The impossible case is Iceland, when are there cities on the island which has an area of 103 000 km2, but it has a small population.
List
changeCountry | Coat of arms | Area (km2) | Population | Capital | Official languages |
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Andorra | 468 km2 | 85 000 | Andorra la Vella | Catalan Spanish | |
Cyprus[1] | 5900 km2 | 955 000 | Nicosia | Turkish Greek | |
Iceland | 103000 km2 | 388 000 | Reykjavík | Icelandic | |
Liechtenstein | 160 km2 | 41 000 | Vaduz | German | |
Luxembourg | 2586 km2 | 644 000 | Luxembourg City | Luxembourgish French German | |
Malta | 316 km2 | 533 000 | Valleta | Maltese English Italian | |
Monaco | 2 km2 | 40 000 | Monaco City | French | |
Montenegro | 13812 km2 | 616 000 | Podgorica | Montenegrin | |
Northern Cyprus | 3351 km2 | 377 000 | North Nicosia | Turkish | |
San Marino | 61 km2 | 33 000 | San Marino City | Italian | |
Transnistria | 4152 km2 | 518 000 | Tiraspol | Romanian Russian | |
Vatican City | 0.5 km2 | 1 000 | Vatican City | Latin Italian |
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