From time immemorial, it was common for people to protect their homes from the outside world — with fences, walls, ditches. Some simply chose hard-to-reach places to build, such as rocks, forests, and islands surrounded by a lake, river, and even ocean. Below is a list of the tiniest but very picturesque inhabited islands in the world.
1. Island of Lake Bled, Slovenia (James Southorn / CC BY 2.0)
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