displaying the country with the smallest area from a file in C++ - c++

Question

my task is to write a program to read a file called countries.txt which contains a number of countries and their respective land areas and then display the country with the largest and smallest land areas. I am having trouble displaying the country with the smallest land area and would be more then grateful if someone is able to show me how to do it.
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
ifstream ins; // declare an input file stream object
ins.open("/Users/daneided/Desktop/countries.txt"); // open the file by pasting the path
if (ins.fail()) { // program to check if the file failed to open
cout << "Error opening file";
return -1;
}
string biggestCountry; // name of the biggest country
int biggestArea = 0; // the country with the biggest area
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { // read five lines from the file
string countryName;
int area;
ins >> countryName >> area; // read 2 variables from the stream line
if (area > biggestArea) { // update the current maximum if greater
biggestArea = area;
biggestCountry = countryName;
}
}
ins.close(); // close the file
cout << "Biggest country is: " << biggestCountry <<
" (" << biggestArea << ") " << endl;
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Try adding this belkow your if for the biggest country, you should get the hang of it from here:
int smallestArea = biggestArea; /* because you need a default value that is greater then the minimum area of the smallest country */
if (area < smallestArea) {
smallestArea = area;
smallestCountry = countryName;
}