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A World War II veteran with plans to run a pirate radio station on an offshore platform ended up running his own nation instead: Sealand.

Sealand, an offshore platform off England's coast, is the world's smallest state. It has just one permanent resident and its own royal family.

What makes a country? Is it the people, the government, the culture, or what? Can anyone lay claim to a place to make it

You wont find it on any map of the world nor see it mentioned in any geography book. And yet it certainly exists. In the middle of the North Sea, surrounded by nothing but waves and wind, is the smallest self-proclaimed state in the world.
The Principality of Sealand, as its inhabitants call it, is...

A principality situated roughly 6 nautical mile|n mile from the coast of the Britain|UK. Originally formed in 1942 after the start of World War II|WWII ...

Stranger than fiction - that's how playwright Suzanne Hawkes describes the story of the principality of Sealand off Felixstowe, the subject of her latest work, Children of the Revolution - the Story of Sealand.

Share: COLOMBO (News1st): Seven miles off England’s coast, a micronation spanning just 0.004 square kilometres is selling noble titles ranging from Lord to Dame to fund its existence – a strategy used by ancient Europe to fund wars. The Principality of Sealand was established in 1967 by Roy Bates, a Major in the British Army, after occupying Roughs Tower – a sea fort built by the British during World War 2. He called himself Prince and his wife Princess – as a birthday gesture, setting...