| Transportation assumes particular importance in this isolated microstate. |
| Andorra, historically, was a rural microstate whose population oscillated between 4,000 and 6,000 inhabitants. |
| The Tokelauans, a Polynesian people, are reluctant over any change in status which would create the world's ultimate microstate. |
| 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. |
| Liechtenstein is a microstate located in Western Europe bordered by Switzerland and Austria. |
| Its sovereignty as a European microstate goes back to Charlemagne, who wrested this area of the Pyrenees from the Moors in the ninth century. |
