Haven't gotten around to visiting Nauru? Turns out you're not alone. The tiny island nation—and the world's smallest, at eight square miles—is the least-visited country on Earth, the Christian Science Monitor reports. A list of the world's least-popular vacation spots picked up by the Monitor reveals three likely reasons for the low tourism: They're too remote (Nauru), too repressive (Turkmenistan), or too dangerous (Afghanistan). Sometimes there's also little to see; most of Nauru, explains one travel writer, is "a large open phosphate mine." Topping the list:
- Nauru (200 visitors in 2011)
- Somalia (an estimated 500 last year)
- Tuvalu, Polynesian island nation (1,200 in 2011)
- Kiribati, Pacific island nation (4,700 in 2011)
- Marshall Islands (5,000 in 2011)
- Equatorial Guinea (an estimated 6,000 last year)
- Turkmenistan (7,000 in 2007)
- Sao Tome & Principe (8,000 in 2010)
- Comoros, island nation near Mozambique (15,000 in 2010)
- Afghanistan (17,500 in 2012)
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