| Andorra, historically, was a rural microstate whose population oscillated between 4,000 and 6,000 inhabitants. |
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| The Tokelauans, a Polynesian people, are reluctant over any change in status which would create the world's ultimate microstate. |
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| Its sovereignty as a European microstate goes back to Charlemagne, who wrested this area of the Pyrenees from the Moors in the ninth century. |
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| He is the most pampered prisoner in the world, the sole inmate of the only jail in the microstate of San Marino. |
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| In 1962 Samoa promulgated its constitution as the first independent microstate in the Pacific region, and in 1970 it joined the Commonwealth. |
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| Each microstate corresponds to a particular configuration of neuronal activity in the brain. |
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| A tiny microstate in Europe, it is an enclave of Italy situated on the northeast coast. |
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| Liechtenstein is a microstate located in Western Europe bordered by Switzerland and Austria. |
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| The town's flag with blue, white and orange colours similar to the old apartheid flag is visible everywhere across this microstate in the making. |
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| This is not the first time Fiji's coup leader has snubbed a regional summit: last August he failed to attend a similar meeting in Niue, one of the microstate members of the Forum. |
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| Nearby Andorra, a microstate sitting between Spain and France, is the only officially Catalan-speaking state in the world, and despite mass tourism, public signage tends to be only in Catalan. |
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| Transportation assumes particular importance in this isolated microstate. |
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| Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. |
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| Europe's oldest republic, founded in 301AD, is a microstate enclave with two heads of government, usually the leaders of opposition parties. |
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| Morocco should demand from these friends to up the ante and say that the addition of this microstate in North Africa is not acceptable. |
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| At some future time, a second observation of the skin temperature produces a second microstate. |
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| Today's trip to the microstate of San Marino will be the 29-year-old's 106th international appearance and could see him enter the record books. |
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| In 2009, however, an official group reached the provisional view that becoming a microstate would be undesirable and it is not supported by Guernsey's Chief Minister. |
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| A microstate existed previously on the border called Couto Misto. |
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