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 ).

Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük, Çayönü, Nevali Cori and Hacilar represent the world's oldest known agricultural towns.

These include Hindu astrology ( also known as " Indian astrology " and in modern times referred to as " Vedic astrology ") and Chinese astrology, both of which have influenced the world's cultural history.

The BVI are known as one of the world's greatest sailing destinations, and charter sailboats are a very popular way to visit less accessible islands.

In the early Church, the first canons were decreed by bishops united in " Ecumenical " councils ( the Emperor summoning all of the known world's bishops to attend with at least the acknowledgement of the Bishop of Rome ) or " local " councils ( bishops of a region or territory ).

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

Salt Mountain, a 16 km block of almost solid salt west of Barahona, was the world's largest known salt deposit.

Since the tropical rainforests are the most diverse ecosystems on Earth and about 80 % of the world's known biodiversity could be found in tropical rainforests, removal or destruction of significant areas of forest cover has resulted in a degraded environment with reduced biodiversity.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

General Motors Company, commonly known as GM ( listed General Motors Corporation before 2009 ), is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and the world's largest automaker, by vehicle unit sales, in 2011.

These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as " Groucho glasses ", a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.

To operate the crowning armillary sphere, this clocktower featured an escapement mechanism and the world's oldest known use of an endless power-transmitting chain drive.

People became urbanized and lived in city-states, including Jericho ; those were some of the world's earliest known cities.

This is known as the classical period of Indian history, during which time India has sometimes been estimated to have had the largest economy of the ancient and medieval world, with its huge population generating between one fourth and one third of the world's income up to the 18th century.

The coastal periphery was the home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys.

In the decades after the Second World War, a massive restructuring plan drove Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, a phenomenon known as the Japanese post-war economic miracle.

It has been suggested that megaliths found at Nabta Playa are examples of the world's first known archaeoastronomical devices, predating Stonehenge by some 1, 000 years.

The country is also well known for its influential and innovative business economic sector, an industrious and competitive agricultural sector ( Italy is the world's largest wine producer ), and for its creative and high-quality automobile, industrial, appliance and fashion design.

" With an estimated net worth of $ 36 billion, the foundation is unofficially the world's largest charitable organisation, beating out the much better known Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has a net worth of approximately $ 33 billion.

Silicon Valley is known to be one of the world's most targeted areas for espionage, though any industry with information of use to competitors may be a target.

Over the next four centuries this law underwent discussion and debate in both of the world's major Jewish communities ( in Israel and Babylonia ), and the commentaries on the Mishnah from each of these communities eventually came to be edited together into compilations known as the two Talmuds.

The first known library of its kind to gather a serious collection of books from beyond its country's borders, the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge.

Most of the world's languages are known to belong to language families.

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.