LICHTENSTEIN, a small independent state of Southern Germany, bounded on the W. and S. by Switzerland, and E. and N. by Tyrol. Area 53 square miles. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture and cattle rearing. Some wine is produced. This is the smallest of the states forming the German Confederation, to which it furnishes a contingent of sixty-four men. It has one vote in the full council, and, with several of the other small states, occupies the fifteenth place in the diet. The Prince of Liechtenstein has also extensive possessions in Austria, among which are the dependent principalities of Troppau and Jägerndorf, and which have altogether an area of 2212 square miles, and a population of 600,000. His income from these possessions amounts to at least 1,500,000 florins annually, while the revenue of Liechtenstein itself is only about 22,000 florins. Pop. (1853) 7000. Vadutz or Liechtenstein, the capital, has only about 10,000 inhabitants.