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Gettin' To The Little Nations

March 16, 2007 at 9:30 AM | 1 Comment

We usually accept there are around 200 countries in the world, give or take a few toppling dictatorships, reunifications and independence declarations. But if you start including those strange entities called micronations--those parts of the world that might issue their own passports or currency but are not UN-recognized nations--the list gets much longer. Wikipedia lists nearly 40 of them, and Lonely Planet has published a guidebook about them.

You might be grateful to learn, however, that the traveling public might not be quite so keen on reading about these weirdo mini-countries. Lonely Planet's had to resort to sending copies out as a free gift now if you spend over $40 on their other goods. Maybe, after all, we do have the taste to know we want to travel to real countries.

[Photo: misterbisson]

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