Andorra

If you can identify the five smallest countries in Continental Europe you get a gold star. If you know where they are on the map, you should be on "Jeopardy." And if you have visited them you don't get anything else; you have already been rewarded. The tiniest, Vatican City, is undeniably the most influential. The next smallest, Monaco, gets very noisy in May. The third most diminutive, San Marino, was the hilltop hide-out of an escaped slave.

Encamp, Andorra: In a Sept. 28 Travel section article about the small countries of Europe, a town in Andorra was called Encampin. It is Encamp.

Encamp, Andorra: In a Sept. 28 article about the small countries of Europe, a town in Andorra was called Encampin. It is Encamp.

For six decades, Andorra prospered by catering to skiers, smokers and wealthy people trying to avoid taxes. With those revenues drying up, the mountain principality between France and Spain is now putting itself up for sale. The government is opening up investment in resorts and other businesses to foreigners for the first time in seven centuries to plug a budget deficit that was financed by loans from Andorra's five commercial banks until rising defaults curbed lending.