Microstates are, therefore, not like Europe's regular-sized states. They have distinctive institutional architectures—and often for understandable reasons. Provided by The Conversation ...

San Marino is one of four microstates with very distinct constitutional arrangements. Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people ...

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Most of the small states are islands or widely dispersed multi-island states; others are landlocked. Some are located far from major markets. The smallest of these, known as microstates, have ...

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people: Andorra, on the border between France and Spain; Liechtenstein, nestled between Switzerland and ...