Located 12km east of Suffolk in the North Sea, the Principality of Sealand is a micronation that claims to be the world’s smallest country. This story starts with an email that I will never forget.

Turns out they’re available for purchase via the Principality of Sealand, the self-described “smallest country in the world,” located east of Essex, England, on a defunct WWII fort in the ...

For 56 years, the Principality of Sealand has — not entirely quietly — gone about its business. Ed Stubbs did not grow up surrounded by the gale-force desolation of the North Sea. He is from a ...

The Principality of Sealand is at the top of the list. Nearly 50 years since this man-made platform split from the United Kingdom, Sealand is still going strong. Check out some of its weird and ...

Prince Michael Bates, reigning monarch of the Principality of Sealand, has a unique plan if the British Navy rolls up to reclaim his micronation off England's coast: bring out his best china and ...

The team of the Principality of Sealand have played their first official football match. Sealand claims to be its own independent nation since the Bates family founded it in 1967. It has a current ...

The Principality of Sealand has expressed an interest in adopting bitcoin. "Prince Michael" Bates, of the quirky, self-proclaimed independent state, expressed interest in the virtual currency ...

Owned by one family for nearly 50 years, the Principality of Sealand peddles its own currency, citizenship, and has a defensive force ready to jump into action if enemy forces invade again as they ...

We speak of… Sealand. A crumb of real estate off the ... Behold, the world's smallest state… It's a micronation in the extreme, a principality which sits—or stands—only seven miles off ...

But there will be no state funeral in the Principality of Sealand, nor any crowds of mourners, because this would-be republic is in fact a rusting World War II fortress, barely larger than a ...