Most populous country:Â
The largest population of any country is that of China,which has the massive share of the world’s population about 25 percent.The rate of natural increase in population in the People’s Republic of China is now estimated to be 37,000 a day or 13.6 million per year.In mid,-2000 the population of China was estimated to be 1.26 billion.
Least populous country:
The independent State with the smallest population is the Vatican City of Holy see, with 850 inhabitants (est.mid-2000).
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Most densely populated country:
The most densely populated country in the world is Monaco with 15,846.5 people sq.km.in 2000.
Number of Countries:
The world comprises of 192 Sovereign States, 189 members of the United Nations and three nonmembers, viz.,China(Taiwan),Switzerland,Vatican City.There are 61 non-sovereign are 6 disputed territories or other territories making a total of 259 in mid-September 1999.
Largest Country:
The country with the greatest area is Russia.With a total area of 17,075,200 sq.km. or 11.5 percent of the world’s total land area.
Smallest Country:
The smallest independent country in the world is Vatican City Which was made an enclave within the city of Rome,Italy on February 11,1929.The enclave has an area of 0.44 sq.km.
Smallest republic:
The worlds smallest republic is Nauru, less than one degree south of the equator in the Western Pacific,which became independent on January 31,1968.It has an area of 21 sq.km. and a population of 11,845 in 2000.
Smallest colony:
The smallest colony in the world is Gibraltar,with an area of 5.8 Square kilometers.Pitcairn Island, the only inhabited island of a group of four has an area of 388 hectares.
Most populous city:
The most populous urban agglomeration in the world is Tokyo, which was listed in the United Nations Prospects of World Urbanisation 1992 as having a population of 25,000,000.It rose to 26,444,000 by 2000.
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Largest city of World:
The worlds largest city in the area is Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia which has an administrated area of 41,225 square kilometers.
Highest capital:
The highest capital in the world,before the domination of Tibet by China, was Lhasa,at an elevation of 3,684 metres above sea level. La Paz,the administrative and de facto capital of Bolivia, stands at an attitude of 3,361 metres above sea level.
Highest town:
Wenchuan, the new town founded in 1955 on the Shanghai-Tibet road,located north of the Tangled in China at 5,100 metres above sea level,is the highest town in the world.
Least populous town:
China,the worlds most populous country,has what may be the worlds least populous town.Yemen,in the remote Himalaya region of Tibet,has only three resident an elderly father and his two daughters.
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