At the present time, the area holds 14 sovereign nations and 13 territories governed by other nations, that have in common their small land masses and tiny populations (see Table 1). Nauru, the world ’ s third-smallest nation, is the littlest of the lot with just 14,091 people living on 21 square kilometers of land.
這些新興國的共通點即是「小國寡民」（見表一），最小的諾魯土地只有 21 平方公里，人口 1 萬 4,091 人，是全球第 3 小的國家。