What city has the smallest population in the world?
It depends on the definition of city. In the United States there are legal definitions of the term city. For example, in the state of Indiana where I grew up a municipality can elect to become a city if it has at least 5,000 people. But there are many towns that are larger than this that remain a town. The difference is the style of government, usually that a city has a mayor and a council, whereas a town has a council that hires a town manager. I live in Illinois now in the “Village of Glen Ellyn”. Villages have a legal definition in Illinois and Ohio. Indiana only recognizes towns and cities. If you are calling a city a place on the map, there are probably many “cities” with a population of zero, ghost towns that have gone away for a myriad of reasons. Looking on the web there is one surprisingly small but very famous city: Vatican City. Prior to 1868 Italy had many city-states until becoming a unified country under Vittorio Emanuelle, the first president. Two sites below, finetravel
