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Article: My Country 'Tis So Wee; The Little Country Of San Marino Puts Its Stamp On the World
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- The Washington Post
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- November 15, 2000
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Most countries don't celebrate their independence with a
nationwide bingo game and crossbow tournament. But then again, most
countries aren't like San Marino.
San Marino is one of the world's smallest nations. It's a speck on
the east coast of Italy, only 23.5 square miles in size--or just one-
third the size of Washington, D.C. There is no airport, no train
station, no harbor. The country is completely surrounded by Italy,
and only 26,732 people live there.
One of them is Alice Fedele, a 12-year-old student at San Marino's
3rd Middle School. Says Alice: "San Marino is strange because it is
different. Everything's more reduced. The roads are different,
smaller."
But Alice says being small ...