Forget China, Indonesia and New York. The geographical facts that never told him

If you think you know the smallest town in the world, you can have a disagreement. In geography, appearances are deceiving – and popular knowledge as well.

Are the streets of China or India full of people? I should see those of Monaco. What if Indonesia weren’t the country with the most islands? Or New York the city with more taxis? The facts that have always told you can have a background.

Therefore, we have compiled some curiosities about geography that tend to escape the most attentive.

The most densely inhabited country

No, it’s not China. The country with the most inhabitants per square kilometer is the Monaco. With only 2 square kilometersThis is the second smallest city in the world, only surpassed by the Vatican. Still, there are over 26,000 people per km²which makes the country with the most population density in the world.

China is a “girl” beside her, with a “mere” 150 inhabitant per km². The culprits are huge zones, such as Tibet, where the average are 3 inhabitants per km²while in large cities, such as Shanghai, the average per km² It is almost 4 million.

The country with more islands

Have you always told you that Indonesia is the country of the islands? In fact, this Asian country has about 17 thousand islands, with 6 thousand of them inhabited. If we talk about having more islands within the same state, then Indonesia is champion.

But the case changes its figure when we consider several states belonging to the same country. The world of the world with more islands is, in fact, Swedenwith 267,570 islands, and less than a thousand uninhabited. There are, by the way, 7 countries above Indonesia, according to the website: For besides Sweden, Norway, Finland, Japan, Canada and Chile and even the US surpass the “country of the islands.”

The city with more taxis

New York is known, among other things, by the iconic yellow vehicles, the unmistakable taxis. But there are several great metropolises who win you in this field, namely the Mexico City, Tokyo or Beijing.

The Mexican capital will have about 140,000 licensed vehicles as taxis. For the misfortune of other drivers (and customers who pay per minute), Mexico City is one of the cities with the most congested traffic in the world.

The largest railway line in the world

We can tend to think that Russia is the country with the largest railway line in the world. In addition to being the largest country in terms of area, it is also owned by the largest railway connection in the world: Trans-Siberia line, Which crosses almost all of its territory, from Moscow to the east, and has almost 10,000 km.

But in fact, the country with more km of line built is China. This country has 45,000 km of high-speed railroad- An extension greater than the perimeter of planet Earth, that is, through the entire equator line.

The smallest city in the world

The Vatican may even be the smallest city-state in the world, which is considered a country. But when it comes to the city, there are some much smaller. This is the case of Durbuyin Belgium, a highly touristy mini-science for its picturesque character and medieval architecture. This city claims to be “smallest in the world“But there are those who believe it is only for tourism purposes.

The smallest city in the world will be, according to the small Humin Croatia, where even the name is small – and has a small population of about 50 inhabitants.

However, according to the city de jure smallest in the world is Plymouththe capital of the overseas British territory of Monserratwhich was completely abandoned and almost totally buried by a volcano who erupted in 1995. However, until June 2025, the government has not yet changed the official capital of the nation.