A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.

Sometimes the word country is used to refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times it refers only to states. For example, the CIA World Factbook uses the word in its "Country name" field to refer to "a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states".

Ten	Country	Location	Area
			SQ KM	SQ Miles
1	Nauru	Pacific Ocean	21.2	8.2
2	Tuvalu	Pacific Ocean	26.0	10.0
3	Marshall	Pacific Ocean	181.3	70.0
4	St Kitts And Nevis	Caribbean Sea	261.0	100.8
5	Maldives	Mediterranean	298.0	115.1
6	Malta	Indian Ocean	316.0	122.0
7	Grenada	Caribbean Sea	344.0	132.8
8	St. Vincent and The Grendines	Caribbean Sea	389.0	150.2
9	Barbados	Caribbean Sea	431.0	166.4
10	Antigua and Barbuda	Caribbean Sea	442.6	170.9