I can’t argue about the rest of them but Tokelau is a series of atolls in the pacific with a population of 1400. Additionally, even the official government website is hosted in New Zealand’s TLD.

https://www.tokelau.org.nz/

So yes, they are actual counties but we can’t use that information to pressure that there’s must be at least one legitimate user (e.g. the government).

There are plenty of local sites, search tokelau site:tk for examples. ISPs, mobile networks, visitor attractions etc.

Poor, yes, but mostly not that small. Mali is huge, 5 times bigger than the UK, and has a population of 21.5 million. Central African Republic is half that size, with 5 million people. Gabon is smaller, but still bigger than the UK, and has 2.3 million people. Equatorial Guinea is actually small, but still has 1.7 million people. Tokelau is tiny in both size and population, and isn't even an independent country.

> Gabon is smaller, but still bigger than the UK, and has 2.3 million people.

I doubt GP meant 'quite small' land area. In terms of population then, the UK is roughly 35 times the size of Gabon.

While the landmasses are bigger than the UK for some of these countries, their population totals all summed still don't eclipse half the UK's population. They are quite small.