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Micro-nations

Thoughtful, Surprising Last-Minute Gifts

A gift guide from the Atlas Obscura team.

Atlas Obscura December 2, 2022

Podcast: Kalakuta Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team October 6, 2022

Wanted: The Future King and Pub Manager of Piel Island

The tiny Cumbrian island’s next monarch will be crowned with lots and lots of beer.

Diana Hubbell January 7, 2022

Kopačevo, Croatia

Verdis

A small self-proclaimed micro-state located on a piece of disputed territory between Croatia and Serbia, near Liberland.

Meet the Caretakers of Sealand, the World's Most Stubborn Micronation

Maintaining an aging offshore platform is no easy task.

Dylan Taylor-Lehman June 25, 2020

Gapyeong-gun, South Korea

Naminara Republic

This small island declared independence from South Korea in the hopes of attracting tourists.

'Independent Republic' of Hualqui

Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.

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A Spherical 'Micro-Nation' in the Middle of Vienna

Laadla, Estonia

Kingdom of Torgu

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

Funchal, Portugal

Principality of Pontinha

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

Abalonia: The Island Nation That Never Was

It was meant to be a seafood paradise.

Anne Ewbank June 28, 2018

Stepanakert, Azerbaijan

We Are Our Mountains

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

'Welcome to Gagauzia' Sign

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

Independent Republic of California Embassy in Moscow

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

Pittsburg, New Hampshire

Republic of Indian Stream

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

Marie Byrd Land

The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.

Sukhumi, Georgia

Abandoned Council of Ministries Building

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Glacier Republic

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.