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    1. MardykeBoy on

      I didn’t realise Malta was that small. Always assumed it was a couple of times bigger than Andorra for example.

    3. birkeskov on

      BNP per capita US$

      Andorra 40.200

      Malta 33.700

      San Marino 54.300

      Liechtenstein 186.400

      Monaco 256.600

      Vatican City?

    4. Fumasse on

      I was wondering why was Luxembourg not included but it’s 6 times bigger than Andorra and while it’s tiny, it’s not technically a microstate. I have to admit I feel a bit stupid for only learning this today.

    6. AttentionLimp194 on

      Could’ve been fun to add the sovereign military order of Malta, that has like one or two houses in Rome.

    9. gustix on

      Anyone been to all six? I’ve only been to Monaco and Vatican City.

    10. butdattruetho on

      Wow! Checkout Andorra being _an absolute unit_^compared-to-vatican-city

    12. WeAreTheMachine368 on

      With only Malta being a member of the EU. Monaco and Liechtenstein are essentially tax avoidance safety blankets for the rich, with Liechtenstein not even being a full democracy anymore. Vatican City is officially a theocracy. Malta is famous for selling passports and having a rather unhealthy dose of government corruption (including a murder on a journalist allegedly ordered by a business contact of a former prime minister). San Marino, Monaco and Vatican City are even authorized to mint their own euro coins, without being member of either the EU or the Eurozone. How they get that deal? So a nice bunch in all.

    13. darband on

      Great perspective. When visiting Malta, I never saw it as a microstate. If anything, it felt like a very vibrant, country full of all things you’d want in a country.

    14. fireledge on

      Not a microstate, technically. But feeling huge right now 👀

    16. AdminEating_Dragon on

      As I wrote in the MapPorn post (of which this one is a copy), Malta feels way bigger because

      A) the island is stuck in a permanent traffic jam, you cannot get quickly from one place to another even by car

      B) the buses (only public transport available) suck (they are slow, not frequent enough, a lot of stops, everyone enters only from the driver door one by one) which means everyone opts for cars/Ubers

      C) the roads are curved and narrow, and going up and down hills.

      Small and beautiful country, with zero preparation/infrastructure/planning for the population+tourism it has for 21st century Europe standards.

    17. Ok-Economist482 on

      And together only one win in the Eurovision Song Contest!

    18. KeziahPT on

      To give some sense of scale to our fellow americans, you could fit Monaco in Central Park and still have some area left.

    19. andoriansnowplains on

      How would Transnistria look alongside them? I know it’s a narrow strip of land, but what would it look like in comparison to Andorra, Liechtenstein et al?

    20. GreenockScatman on

      I don’t think Malta counts. It’s an island, it can’t easily get any bigger than it is. Like, Liechtenstein or Andorra could have tried a bit harder to annex lands next to them but Malta is kind of limited by facts of geography.

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