Which is the smallest country in the world by area?
- A.Monaco
- B.Nauru
- C.Vatican City
- D.San Marino
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Vatican City. Vatican City is an independent state of well under half a square kilometre lying entirely inside the city of Rome, and it is the smallest country in the world by both area and population. It is the seat of the Pope and holds St Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel. At the other end of the scale, Russia is the largest country in the world by area.
Option A, Monaco, on the Mediterranean coast beside France, is the second smallest country. Option B, Nauru, an island in the Pacific, is the smallest island country and the third smallest state. Option D, San Marino, another enclave within Italy, is among the smallest and also among the oldest surviving republics. All four are genuinely tiny states, so the ranking has to be learnt rather than guessed from familiarity.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich is the largest and deepest ocean in the world?
- A.Atlantic Ocean
- B.Indian Ocean
- C.Pacific Ocean
- D.Arctic Ocean
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The Pacific covers a greater area than all the land on earth put together and is also the deepest ocean, holding the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on the planet.
Read the full explanation →The deepest known point of the earth's surface, the Challenger Deep, lies in which trench?
- A.Mariana Trench
- B.Puerto Rico Trench
- C.Java Trench
- D.Peru-Chile Trench
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The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific, east of the Mariana Islands, and its deepest part, the Challenger Deep, is close to eleven kilometres below sea level.
Read the full explanation →Which river is conventionally regarded as the longest river in the world?
- A.Amazon
- B.Nile
- C.Yangtze
- D.Mississippi-Missouri
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The Nile flows north through north-eastern Africa for about 6,650 kilometres to the Mediterranean and is the river taken as the longest in the world in almost every textbook and examination.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest hot desert in the world?
- A.Gobi
- B.Kalahari
- C.Sahara
- D.Atacama
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The Sahara stretches across northern Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea and is the largest hot desert in the world.
Read the full explanation →Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, is located in which country?
- A.Brazil
- B.Venezuela
- C.Zambia
- D.Canada
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Angel Falls drops 979 metres from the edge of a flat-topped table mountain called Auyan Tepui in the Guiana highlands of Venezuela, and is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world.
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