| Andorra, historically, was a rural microstate whose population oscillated between 4,000 and 6,000 inhabitants. |
| Transportation assumes particular importance in this isolated microstate. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Liechtenstein is a microstate located in Western Europe bordered by Switzerland and Austria. |
| The Tokelauans, a Polynesian people, are reluctant over any change in status which would create the world's ultimate microstate. |
