Vatican Radio
Vatican Radio is the official broadcasting service of Vatican City. Established in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi, today its programs are offered in 47 languages, and are sent out on short wave, DRM, medium wave, FM, satellite and the Internet.
- Radio station
- …lies at an elevation of around 80 metres (250 feet)
- …is also known as “Radio Vaticana”
- Description: Vatican City radio station
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St. Peter’s Basilica and Vatican Hill.
St. Peter’s Basilica
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. St. Peter’s Basilica is situated 450 metres east of Vatican Radio.
Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the… Sistine Chapel is situated 520 metres east of Vatican Radio.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Rome and North Rome.
Vatican Radio
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Latitude
41.90189° or 41° 54′ 7″ north
Longitude
12.44834° or 12° 26′ 54″ east
Open location code
8FHJWC2X+Q8
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Vatican Radio” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Radio Vatikani”
- Basque: “Vatikano Irratia”
- Belarusian: “Ватыканскае радыё”
- Bulgarian: “Радио Ватикана”
- Catalan: “Ràdio vaticà”
- Catalan: “Ràdio Vaticana”
- Chinese: “梵蒂冈广播电台”
- Chinese: “梵蒂冈电台”
- Chinese: “梵蒂岡廣播電台”
- Chinese: “梵蒂岡電台”
- Croatian: “Radio Vatikan”
- Czech: “Radio Vatikán”
- Czech: “Vatikánský rozhlas”
- Danish: “Vatikan Radio”
- Dutch: “Radio Vaticaan”
- Dutch: “Radio Vaticana”
- Esperanto: “Radio Vatikana”
- Esperanto: “Vatikana Radio”
- Finnish: “Vatikaanin radio”
- French: “Radio Vatican”
- Galician: “Radio Vaticana”
- Galician: “Radio Vaticano”
- German: “Radio Vaticana”
- German: “Radio Vatikan”
- German: “RV”
- Hebrew: “רדיו ותיקן”
- Hungarian: “Vatikáni Rádió”
- Indonesian: “Radio Vatikan”
- Indonesian: “Vatican Radio”
- Italian: “Radio Vaticana”
- Japanese: “ヴァチカン・ラジオ”
- Japanese: “ヴァチカン放送”
- Japanese: “バチカン放送”
- Korean: “라디오 바티칸”
- Korean: “바티칸 라디오”
- Latin: “Statio Radiophonica Vaticana”
- Latvian: “Vatikāna radio”
- Literary Chinese: “梵蒂岡廣播電臺”
- Lithuanian: “Vatikano radijas”
- Maltese: “Radju tal-Vatikan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Radio Vatican”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Radio Vaticana”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vatikanradioen”
- Norwegian: “Vatikanradioen”
- Polish: “Radio Vaticana”
- Polish: “Radio Watykan”
- Polish: “Radio Watykańskie”
- Portuguese: “Radio Vaticana”
- Portuguese: “Rádio Vaticano”
- Romanian: “Radio Vatican”
- Russian: “Радио Ватикан”
- Russian: “Радио Ватикана”
- Serbian: “Радио Ватикан”
- Slovak: “Radio Vaticana”
- Slovenian: “Radio Vatikan”
- Spanish: “Radio Vaticana”
- Spanish: “Radio Vaticano”
- Swedish: “Radio Vaticana”
- Swedish: “Vatikanradion”
- Tagalog: “Radyo Batikana”
- Tamil: “வத்திக்கான் வானொலி”
- Turkish: “Vatikan Radyosu”
- Ukrainian: “Радіо Ватикану”
- Vietnamese: “Đài phát thanh Vatican”
- Western Frisian: “Radio Fatikaan”
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