On 31 January 1968, following a two-year constitutional convention, Nauru became the world's smallest independent republic.

The smallest independent state by area in Europe after Vatican and Monaco, San Marino is dominated by the Apennines.

The decision to let the currency trade freely as part of the IMF rescue package means that Seychelles is the smallest country in the world that has a completely independent currency-one that is neither pegged, nor an adopted foreign currency, nor a common currency used within a larger monetary union.

With an area of, it is the world's smallest independent state.

The name was a parody of London Weekend Television, the independent television franchise that provided Londoners with their ITV services at weekends ; Rutland had been England's smallest county, but had recently been ' abolished ' in an administrative shake-up.

Falls Church is the smallest independent city, by area, in Virginia.

Since independent cities in Virginia are considered county-equivalents, it is also the smallest county-equivalent in the United States by area.

In most modern militaries, a division tends to be the smallest combined arms unit capable of independent operations ; due to its self-sustaining role as a unit with a range of combat troops and suitable combat support forces, which can be divided into various organic combinations.

A battalion is generally the smallest military unit capable of independent operations ( i. e., not attached to a higher command ), although many armies have smaller units that are self-sustaining.

Traditionally, cruisers were the smallest warships capable of independent action.

With approximately 1, 400 inhabitants, Roigheim is the smallest independent community in the German state ( Bundesland ) Baden-Württemberg.

" Bell notes that " there is not the smallest rag of evidence associating it with Londinium ," and that it may well be a section of the foundation of Henry Fitz-Ailwin's stone house which remained after the rest of the house was gone, and which was honored for its association with London's first mayor and with independent self-government for the City.

The only Virginia statistic affected is smallest county by area ; if independent cities are included, Falls Church becomes the smallest county in the state, and in fact the smallest county-level political subdivision in the United States, at.

* Nanoarchaeum equitans – smallest known independent cell, one of the smallest known genomes ( the smallest published genome belongs to Carsonella rudii )

χ < sub > f </ sub >( G ) is the smallest k for which there exists a probability distribution over the independent sets of G such that for each vertex v, given an independent set S drawn from the distribution,

The independent Duchy of Parma was the smallest Bourbon court.

Although Stonnington's smallest suburb, Windsor has its own bank, along with a growing number of independent clothing stores, fast food outlets, bars, lounges and cafés.

It was shortly after this that PPA was formed: the smallest independent unit of the British Army at 23 All Ranks.

There are roughly 3, 500 students studying at the Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences and at the independent International Graduate School, Germany's smallest university catering to students from nearby Poland and the Czech Republic.

The local Co-op store was run by the Moulton Co-operative Society, an independent society and one of Britain's smallest until its merger with Midlands Co-operative Society in 2009.

All three provinces have the smallest land base in the country and have been forced to make do with resources within.

The smallest physiographic region of Honduras, the Pacific lowlands, is a strip of land averaging twenty-five kilometers wide on the north shore of the Gulf of Fonseca.

The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population.

Uruguay is the smallest Spanish-speaking nation in South America with a land area of and a water area of.

Arlington County, the smallest self-governing county in the United States by land area, is an urban community organized as a county.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Maryland, of which ( or 99. 40 %) is land and ( or 0. 60 %) is water.

Alsace ( ; Alsatian: Elsàss ; German: ), pre-1996: Elsaß ; ) is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area ( 8, 280 km² ), and the smallest in metropolitan France.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in South Dakota, of which is land and ( 1. 22 %) is water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in North Carolina, of which is land and ( 2. 67 %) is water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Utah, of which is land and ( 51. 95 %) is water.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Florida, of which ( or 96. 23 %) is land and ( or 3. 77 %) is water.

It is also among the smallest, consisting of little more than the rectangle of land around Naknek on the coast and King Salmon ( which, uniquely, serves as the borough seat for the neighboring Lake and Peninsula Borough ) inland.

It is the second largest county by land area in the 48 contiguous United States, behind San Bernardino County, California, with its making it larger than each of the nine smallest states.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Connecticut, of which ( or 98. 34 %) is land and ( or 1. 66 %) is water.

The smallest county by land area is Kalawao County, Hawaii, which is.

In terms of land area, New London is one of the smallest cities in Connecticut.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Wisconsin, of which is land and ( 6. 59 %) is water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in West Virginia, of which is land and ( 6. 26 %) is water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Washington, of which is land and ( 7. 83 %) is water.

It is the smallest of Washington's 39 counties in land area.

With a land area of, Arlington is the geographically smallest self-governing county in the United States and has no other incorporated towns within its borders.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Vermont, of which is land and ( 57. 56 %) is water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Texas, of which is land and is ( 13. 39 %) water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Tennessee, of which is land and ( 2. 06 %) is water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in South Carolina, of which is land and ( 3. 09 %) is water.