The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

The world's five largest IKEA stores are:

Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo.

The world's longest mountain system is known as Ocean Ridge, which is a chain of mountains that runs on the seafloor of five oceans around the world ; it has a length of, and the total length of the system is.

The Northern Areas has five of the world's seventeen highest peaks along with highest range of mountains the Karakoram and Himalayas.

In addition the thriving energy sector, the nation controls twenty five ( 25 %) percent of the world's natural gas with a whopping GDP of twenty ( US $ 20. 5b ) billion US dollars.

The Ganz factory had also in the autumn of 1884 made delivery of the world's first five high-efficiency AC transformers, the first of these units having been shipped on September 16, 1884.

The award is the world's largest monetary award for children's and youth literature, in the amount of five million SEK.

In 2009, France, the United States, Germany, Russia and Turkey were the world's five largest sugar beet producers.

Once he was the world's heavyweight champ, Johnson did not fight a black opponent for the first five years of his reign.

The world's longest endurance ride is the Shahzada 400 km Memorial Test which is conducted over five days travelling 80 kilometres a day at St Albans on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.

It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer group and one of the top five largest consumer goods companies in the world ; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.

Only five world's fair events have been sanctioned by the B. I. E.

In 2001 it became the world's first suspension bridge to be widened ( from three to five lanes ) using cantilevers, and the world's first bridge to undergo strengthening and widening work while remaining open to traffic.

This was described as the five mile world's championship of the sea and the prize was $ 1, 750 prize.

Today, Icaria is considered one of the world's five " Blue Zones "-places where the population regularly lives to an advanced age ( one in three make it to their 90s ).

For the next five years, Evert was the world's No. 1 player.

In November 2006 the Canadian producer Royal DeMaria released five cases of Chardonnay icewine with a half-bottle price set at C $ 30, 000, making it the world's most expensively priced wine.

Down Beat also elected him the world's " No 1 Jazz Pianist " in 1966 ( and were to do so again five further times ).

For example, five towers at the center of the Angkor Wat complex represent the peaks of Mount Meru, the center of the universe ; an outer wall represents the mountains that ring the world's edge ; and a moat depicts the cosmic ocean.

Abramovich has become the world's greatest spender on luxury yachts, and had been linked to five yachts in what the media have called " Abramovich's Navy ":

The circle of fights between these five gladiators actually began on November 30, 1979, when Leonard beat Benitez by knockout in round fifteen to win the WBC world Welterweight title, on the same night Hagler drew ( tied ) with Vito Antuofermo in his first bid to become the world's Middleweight champion.

It takes us all of about five minutes inside to figure out that the " world's most interactive " title is no boast.

The world's smallest known vertebrate, Paedophryne amauensis, sitting on a Dime ( United States coin ) | U. S. dime, 17. 91mm, for scale

The RABDF is the world's smallest military, consisting of 245 people.

The economy of Bhutan, one of the world's smallest and least developed, is based on agriculture and forestry, which provide the main livelihood for more than 60 % of the population.

In June 2009, a company PR stunt announced they had introduced the prototype of the world's smallest, portable microwave, the " Beanzawave ".

In the early to mid-1990s, Paiste offered mini hi-hats as part of its Visions series ; these were among the world's smallest hi-hats.

Greenland is the world's largest island with an area of over 2. 1 million km², while Australia, the world's smallest continent has an area of 7. 6 million km², but there is no standard of size which distinguishes islands from continents, or from islets.

The island is home to two-thirds of the world's chameleon species, including the smallest one known to date, and researchers have proposed that Madagascar may represent the origin of all chameleon species.

The Principality of Monaco, which is the world's second smallest nation ( after the Vatican City State ), has a very limited military capability, and would depend entirely upon its larger neighbour, France, for defence in the face of an aggressive world power.

It has been described as the " world's most notorious micronation " as well as the " world's smallest and weirdest " country "".

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

Such an empty program, submitted as " the world's smallest self reproducing program ", once won the " worst abuse of the rules " prize in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.

The world's smallest water-lily, Nymphaea thermarum, was saved from extinction when it was grown from seed at Kew, in 2009.

* 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.

While it has been described as the world's smallest nation, or a micronation, Sealand is not currently officially recognised by any established sovereign state.

Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation, March 2012, Ars Technica

With dimensions of 14 cm × 14 cm × 3. 8 cm ( 5. 5in × 5. 5in × 1. 5in ), the NEC PC Engine holds the record for the world's smallest game console ever made.

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

* January 3 – Motorola introduces the Motorola StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone, the world's smallest and lightest mobile phone at that time.

** Motorola introduces the Motorola MicroTAC Personal Cellular Telephone, then the world's smallest mobile phone.

The Cape of Good Hope is an integral part of the Cape Floristic Kingdom, the smallest but richest of the world's six floral kingdoms.

Cocoa is the world's smallest soft commodity market.

Tuvalu, one of the world's smallest countries, has indicated that its priority within the United Nations is to emphasise " climate change and the unique vulnerabilities of Tuvalu to its adverse impacts ".

Endemic mammals are the Silver Dik-dik ( Madoqua piacentinii ), one of the world's smallest antelopes, and the Somali golden mole ( Calcochloris tytonis ).