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#REDIRECT [[Small power]]
A small country or small state within a collection of united states. The term "small state" is similar to the term ''microstate'' or ''ministate'', a [[sovereign state]] having a very small population or land area, usually both. However, the meanings of "state" and "very small" are not well-defined in international law.<ref name="Journal">Warrington, E. (1994). "Lilliputs Revisited". ''Asian Journal of Public Administration'', 16(1).</ref>
==Definitions of a Small State==
Two thirds of U.N. members can be considered small states by some definitions, while World Bank made a list which is about 50 countries globally.<Ref name=worldbank>[https://www.diplomacy.edu/topics/diplomacy-of-small-states/ Diplomacy of small states]</ref>


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World Bank lists the following countries as small states using their definition:<Ref name=worldbank/>
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*[[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Bahamas]], [[Bahrain]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Bhutan]], [[Botswana]], [[Brunei]], [[Cape Verde]], [[Comoros]], [[Cyprus]], [[Djibouti]], [[Dominica]], [Equatorial Guinea]], [[Estonia]], [[Fiji]], [[Gabon]], [[Gambia]], [[Grenada]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Guyana]], [[Iceland]], [[Jamaica]], [[Kiribati]], [[Lesotho]], [[Maldives]], [[Malta]], [[Marshall Islands]], [[Mauritius]], [[Micronesia]], [[Montenegro]], [[Namibia]], [[Nauru]], [[Palau]], [[Qatar]], [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent & the Grenadines]], [[Samoa]], [[San Marino]], [[Sao Tome and Principe]], [[Seychelles]], [[Solomon Islands]], [[Suriname]], [[Swaziland]], [[Timor-Leste]], [[Tonga]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Tuvalu]], and [[Vanuatu]].
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If a threshold of 1.5 million people was chosen, at one time this included about 30 countries.<Ref name=worldbank/>

==As member of Forum of Small States==
[[File:CIA World Factbook map of Singapore (English).png|thumb|The Forum of Small States was founded by Singapore in 1992 and has now grown to over 100 countries]]
Another way a small state could be defined is by membership in the [[Forum of Small States]], which as of the 2020s included over 100 nations.<ref name="Trinidad">{{cite web|url=https://mpa.gov.tt/sites/default/files/file_upload/psacourses/SCPTA/Annex.pdf |title=Members of the Forum of Small States (FOSS)|website="Ministry of Public Administration, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago"|language=en|date=May 2022}}, accessed= 28 Mar 2024</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Members
|-
|{{flag|Albania}}||{{flag|Liberia}}
|-
|{{flag|Andorra}}||{{flag|Libya}}
|-
|{{flag|Antigua & Barbuda}}||{{flag|Liechtenstein}}
|-
|{{flag|Armenia}}||{{flag|Lithuania}}
|-
|{{flag|Austria}}||{{flag|Luxembourg}}
|-
|{{flag|Azerbaijan}}||{{flag|Maldives}}
|-
|{{flag|Bahamas}}||{{flag|Malta}}
|-
|{{flag|Bahrain}}||{{flag|Marshall Islands}}
|-
|{{flag|Barbados}}||{{flag|Mauritania}}
|-
|{{flag|Belarus}}||{{flag|Mauritius}}
|-
|{{flag|Belize}}||{{flag|Micronesia}}
|-
|{{flag|Benin}}||{{flag|Moldova}}
|-
|{{flag|Bhutan}}||{{flag|Monaco}}
|-
|{{flag|Bolivia}}||{{flag|Mongolia}}
|-
|{{flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}||{{flag|Montenegro}}
|-
|{{flag|Botswana}}||{{flag|Namibia}}
|-
|{{flag|Brunei}}||{{flag|Nauru}}
|-
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}||{{flag|New Zealand}}
|-
|{{flag|Burundi}}||{{flag|Nicaragua}}
|-
|{{flag|Cabo Verde}}||{{flag|North Macedonia}}
|-
|{{flag|Cambodia}}||{{flag|Norway}}
|-
|{{flag|Central African Republic}}||{{flag|Oman}}
|-
|{{flag|Comoros}}||{{flag|Palau}}
|-
|{{flag|Costa Rica}}||{{flag|Panama}}
|-
|{{flag|Croatia}}||{{flag|Papua New Guinea}}
|-
|{{flag|Cyprus}}||{{flag|Paraguay}}
|-
|{{flag|Czech Republic}}||{{flag|Qatar}}
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}}||{{flag|Rwanda}}
|-
|{{flag|Djibouti}}||{{flag|Saint Kitts and Nevis}}
|-
|{{flag|Dominican Republic}}||{{flag|Saint Lucia}}
|-
|{{flag|El Salvador}}||{{flag|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}}
|-
|{{flag|Estonia}}||{{flag|Samoa}}
|-
|{{flag|Eswatini}}||{{flag|San Marino}}
|-
|{{flag|Fiji}}||{{flag|Senegal}}
|-
|{{flag|Finland}}||{{flag|Serbia}}
|-
|{{flag|Gabon}}||{{flag|Seychelles}}
|-
|{{flag|Gambia}}||{{flag|Sierra Leone}}
|-
|{{flag|Georgia}}||{{flag|Singapore}}
|-
|{{flag|Grenada}}||{{flag|Slovakia}}
|-
|{{flag|Guinea-Bissau}}||{{flag|Slovenia}}
|-
|{{flag|Guyana}}||{{flag|Solomon Islands}}
|-
|{{flag|Haiti}}||{{flag|Suriname}}
|-
|{{flag|Honduras}}||{{flag|Sweden}}
|-
|{{flag|Hungary}}||{{flag|Switzerland}}
|-
|{{flag|Iceland}}||{{flag|Tajikistan}}
|-
|{{flag|Ireland}}||{{flag|Timor-Leste}}
|-
|{{flag|Jamaica}}||{{flag|Togo}}
|-
|{{flag|Jordan}}||{{flag|Tonga}}
|-
|{{flag|Kuwait}}||{{flag|Trinidad & Tobago}}
|-
|{{flag|Kyrgyzstan}}||{{flag|Tunisia}}
|-
|{{flag|Lao PDR}}||{{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|-
|{{flag|Latvia}}||{{flag|Uruguay}}
|-
|{{flag|Lebanon}}||{{flag|Vanuatu}}
|-
|{{flag|Lesotho}}||{{flag|Zambia}}
|}
<ref name="Trinidad"/>

==Within the United States==
The smallest states within the USA by size area, as of the 2020s are:<Ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/29/what-is-smallest-state-in-us/10252175002/ What is the smallest state in the US? These are the 10 smallest states across America.
Portrait of Mythili Devarakonda Mythili Devarakonda
USA TODAY]</ref>
*Rhode Island
*Delaware
*Connecticut
*New Jersey
*New Hampshire
*Vermont
*Massachusetts
*Hawaii
*Maryland
*West Virginia
{{further|List of states and territories of the United States}}

==See also==
*[[Forum of Small States]]
*[[Games of the Small States of Europe]]
*[[Libertarian conservatism#Small government conservatism]]
*[[Microstate]]
*[[Small power]]
*[[Alliance of Small Island States]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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