In a large world, Tuvalu is beautifully small. Its statistics are impressively concentrated. Its population of 12,000 makes it the tiniest Commonwealth country and the world's smallest independent nation after the Vatican, which, unlike Tuvalu, is not fielding a team for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
But there's a downside: Tuvalu may be one of the next countries to disappear off the face of the Earth, a victim of rising sea levels and the greenhouse effect.
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