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Here are the 47 smallest sovereign countries that, added together from smallest upward, still fit inside New Zealand (about 268,000 km²):

Vatican City

Monaco

Nauru

Tuvalu

San Marino

Liechtenstein

Marshall Islands

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Maldives

Malta

Grenada

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Barbados

Antigua and Barbuda

Seychelles

Palau

Andorra

Saint Lucia

Micronesia

Singapore

Tonga

Dominica

Bahrain

Kiribati

São Tomé and Príncipe

Comoros

Mauritius

Luxembourg

Samoa

Cape Verde

Trinidad and Tobago

Brunei

Cyprus

Lebanon

Jamaica

Qatar

The Gambia

Bahamas

Montenegro

Vanuatu

Slovenia

Israel

El Salvador

Belize

Djibouti

North Macedonia

Rwanda

Together, they total just under New Zealand’s area. Adding the next-smallest country after that would push the total over the limit.