The only trouble is the tiny state must find $900,000 as its share of the $7.5m project.

Kerala, is a tiny state in the southernmost part of India.

Since 1964, this tiny state has produced more than 30 thousand science and engineering graduates.

Palestinians might say no to a state so tiny and cut up by settlements that it could not be viable.

The political philosophy of the tiny state of Singapore has kept one remarkable exception.

In a tiny state like this, that money could go far toward meeting the basic needs of the population - schools, roads, health clinics, running water.

The tiny, rural state will bask in the media spotlight until it goes to the polls on 10 January.

But the tiny new state has the right to call itself whatever it wants.

Kerala is a tiny state, but nearly 91 percent of its 32 million people are literate, according to the 2001 census.

In less than 100 years this tiny state had emerged as a global empire.