Vatican
Vatican City is the world's smallest country both by area and by population, and is the centre of Catholicism. This tiny country completely within Rome is packed with more history and artwork than most cities in the world, and indeed many countries.- Type: Suburb with 524 residents
- Description: Holy See’s independent state, an enclave within Rome, Italy
- Also known as: “Batikano”, “Cetatea Vaticanului”, “Civitas Vaticana - Città del Vaticano”, “Estado da Cidade do Vaticano”, “Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano”, “Estado do Vaticano”, “Estado Pontifício”, “Estat de la Ciutat de Vatican”, “Estat de la Ciutat del Vaticà”, “Estáu de la Ciudá del Vaticanu”, “État de la Cité du Vatican”, “Fatikaan”, “Heilige Stoel”, “Holy See”, “Holy See (Vatican City State)”, “Huàng-dá̤-gŏng”, “Ìlú Vatikan”, “Kota Suci Vatikan”, “Městský stát Vatikán”, “Negara Takhta Suci”, “Państwo Watykańskie”, “Papal State”, “Siyudad kang Batikano”, “Staat Vaticaanstad”, “Staat Vatikanstadt”, “State of the Vatican City”, “State of Vatican City”, “Statul Cetății Vaticanului”, “Status Civitatis Vaticanae”, “Svätá stolica”, “Syodad kang Batikano”, “Tahta Suci Vatikan”, “Takhta Suci”, “Takhta Suci Vatikan”, “The Vatican”, “va”, “VA”, “vat”, “VAT”, “Vaticà”, “Vatican City”, “Vatican City State”, “Vatican City State (Holy See)”, “Vatican Hill”, “Vaticanu”, “Vatikaanriikk”, “Vatikaanstaatâ”, “Vatikaanvaldia”, “Vatikaanväldikodde”, “Vatikán Állam”, “Vatikánsky mestský štát”, “Vatikanstaat”, “Vatikanstáhta”, “Vatikanurbo”, “Vatikánváros”, “Watikana”, “Κράτος της Πόλης του Βατικανού”, “Πόλη του Βατικανού”, “Апо́стольська Столиця”, “Престол Святого Петра”, “Светия престол”, “Святі́йший Престі́л”, “Сьвяты Пасад”, “הוותיקן”, “מדינת קריית הוותיקן”, “עיר הוותיקן”, “دولة مدينة الفاتيكان”, “واټيکان ښار”, “वेटिकन”, “वेटिकन नगर राज्य”, “ভ্যাটিকান সিটির সামরিক বাহিনী”, “ꯚꯥꯇꯤꯀꯥꯟ”, “ꯚꯦꯇꯤꯀꯥꯟ”, “ꠜꠦꠐꠤꠇꠣꠘ ꠘꠉꠞꠤ”, “ᏩᏘᎧᏂ”, “ᏩᏘᎧᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ”, “교황령”, “바티칸 시티”, “ヴァチカン”, “ヴァティカーノ”, “ヴァティカン”, “バティカン”, “圣座(梵蒂冈)”, “梵蒂冈城”, “梵蒂冈城国”, “梵蒂岡城”, and “梵諦岡”
- Languages: Latin, Italian, and French
- Neighbors: Italy
Places of Interest
Highlights: St. Peter’s Basilica and Vatican museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Rome and North Rome.
Vatican
- Categories: city-state, enclave, landlocked country, country, religious complex, institutional complex, urban area, tourist destination, confessional state, sacerdotal state, successor state, sovereign state, and locality
- Location: Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.90381° or 41° 54′ 14″ north
Longitude
12.45316° or 12° 27′ 11″ east
Population
524
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
Capital
Vatican City
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
379
Internet domain
.va
Open location code
8FHJWF33+G7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Vatican” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Ватикан”
- Achinese: “Vatikan”
- Afrikaans: “Vatikaanstad”
- Akan: “Vatican Man”
- Albanian: “Vatikan”
- Albanian: “Vatikani”
- Amharic: “ቫቲካን ከተማ”
- Angika: “वेटिकन नगर”
- Arabic: “الفاتيكان”
- Aragonese: “Ciudat d’o Vaticano”
- Armenian: “Վատիկան”
- Arpitan: “Vatican”
- Assamese: “ভেটিকান চিটি”
- Asturian: “Ciudá del Vaticanu”
- Avaric: “Ватикан”
- Azerbaijani: “Vatikan”
- Balinese: “Vatikan”
- Bambara: “Vatikaŋ”
- Bashkir: “Ватикан”
- Basque: “Vatikano Hiria”
- Basque: “Vatikano”
- Bavarian: “Vatikanstod”
- Belarusian: “Ватыкан”
- Bengali: “ভ্যাটিকান সিটি”
- Bengali: “ভ্যাটিকান”
- Betawi: “Watikan”
- Bhojpuri: “वेटिकन सिटी”
- Bishnupriya: “ভ্যাটিকান সিটি”
- Bislama: “Vatican Siti”
- Bosnian: “Vatikan”
- Breton: “Keoded ar Vatikan”
- Breton: “Vatikan”
- Bulgarian: “Ватикан”
- Bulgarian: “Ватикана”
- Bulgarian: “Свещено море (Ватиканска държава)”
- Burmese: “ဗာတီကန် မြို့ပြနိုင်ငံ”
- Burmese: “ဗာတီကန်”
- Burmese: “ဗာတီကန်စီးတီး”
- Catalan: “Ciutat del Vaticà”
- Catalan: “el Vaticà”
- Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Batikano”
- Central Bikol: “Ciudad nin Vaticano”
- Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Vaticano”
- Central Kanuri: “Bǝrni Vatican yǝ”
- Central Kanuri: “Vatican City”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤاتیکان”
- Chavacano: “Ciudad del Vaticano”
- Chechen: “Ватикан”
- Cherokee: “ᏪᏗᎧᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ”
- Chinese: “Fàndìgāng”
- Chinese: “梵蒂冈”
- Chinese: “梵蒂岡”
- Chinese: “梵蒂岡城國”
- Church Slavic: “Ватиканъ”
- Chuvash: “Ватикан”
- Cornish: “Cita Vatikan”
- Corsican: “Cità di u Vaticanu”
- Crimean Tatar: “Vatikan”
- Croatian: “Država Grada Vatikana”
- Croatian: “Sveta Stolica”
- Croatian: “Vatikan”
- Czech: “Svatý stolec”
- Czech: “Vatikán”
- Dagbani: “Vatican City”
- Danish: “Pavestolen (Vatikanstaten)”
- Danish: “Vatikanstaten”
- Dhivehi: “ވެޓިކަން ސިޓީ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vatikan”
- Dotyali: “भ्याटिकन सिटी”
- Dutch: “Heilige stoel (Vaticaanstad)”
- Dutch: “Vaticaanstad”
- Dzongkha: “བ་ཊི་ཀཱན་ སི་ཊི”
- Dzongkha: “བ་ཊི་ཀཱན།”
- Dzongkha: “ཝེ་ཊི་ཀེན་སི་ཊི།”
- Eastern Mari: “Ватикан”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة الڤاتيكان”
- Emilian: “Sitê dal Vaticân”
- Erzya: “Ватикан Мастор”
- Esperanto: “Vatikano”
- Estonian: “Püha Tool (Vatikan)”
- Estonian: “Vatican City”
- Estonian: “Vatikan”
- Ewe: “Vatican City”
- Ewe: “Vatikandu nutome”
- Extremaduran: “Ciá del Vaticanu”
- Faroese: “Vatikanbýur”
- Faroese: “Vatikanið”
- Fiji Hindi: “Vatican City”
- Finnish: “Pyhä istuin (Vatikaani)”
- Finnish: “Vatikaani”
- Finnish: “Vatikaanivaltio”
- French: “Cité du Vatican”
- French: “Saint-Siège (Etat de la Cité du Vatican)”
- French: “Saint-Siège (État de la Cité du Vatican)”
- French: “Vatican”
- Friulian: “Citât dal Vatican”
- Fulah: “Dowla Waticaan”
- Fulah: “Watikan”
- Gagauz: “Vatikan”
- Galician: “Cidade do Vaticano”
- Ganda: “Vatican”
- Ganda: “Vatikaani”
- Georgian: “ვატიკანი”
- Georgian: “ქალაქი ვატიკანი”
- German: “Staat der Vatikanstadt”
- German: “Vatikan”
- German: “Vatikanstadt”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Vatican City”
- Goan Konkani: “Vatican City”
- Goan Konkani: “वॅटिकन शार”
- Goan Konkani: “व्हॅटिकन सिटी”
- Gothic: “𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃”
- Greek: “Βατικανό”
- Guarani: “Táva Vatikano”
- Guarani: “Táva Vatikáno”
- Guianese Creole French: “Vatikan”
- Gujarati: “વેટિકન સિટી”
- Haitian: “Vatikan”
- Hakka Chinese: “Vatican”
- Hausa: “Batikan”
- Hausa: “Vatican”
- Hawaiian: “Wakikana”
- Hebrew: “וטיקאן”
- Hebrew: “ותיקן”
- Hebrew: “עיר הותיקן”
- Hebrew: “קריית הוותיקן”
- Hindi: “वेटिकन सिटि”
- Hindi: “वैटिकन नगर”
- Hindi: “वैटिकन सिटी”
- Hindi: “वैटिकन”
- Hungarian: “Vatikán”
- Iban: “Vatikan”
- Icelandic: “Páfagarður”
- Icelandic: “Vatíkanið”
- Ido: “Vatikano”
- Igbo: “Ama Ukwu Vatikan”
- Igbo: “Vatican City”
- Iloko: “Siudad ti Batikano”
- Inari Sami: “Vatikaanriijkâ”
- Indonesian: “Kota Vatikan”
- Indonesian: “Vatikan”
- Ingush: “Ватикан”
- Interlingua: “Citate del Vaticano”
- Interlingua: “Citate Vatican”
- Interlingue: “Vaticano”
- Inupiaq: “Santasiiq”
- Irish: “Cathair na Vatacáine”
- Italian: “Città del Vaticano”
- Italian: “Città Vaticano”
- Italian: “Colle Vaticano”
- Italian: “Santa Sede (Città del Vaticano)”
- Italian: “Stato della Città del Vaticano”
- Italian: “Vaticano”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Vatikan Siti”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Vatikan”
- Japanese: “バチカン”
- Japanese: “バチカン市国”
- Japanese: “ローマ教皇庁 (バチカン市国)”
- Japanese: “ローマ法王庁 (バチカン市国)”
- Javanese: “Kutha Vatikan”
- Javanese: “Vatikan”
- Jèrriais: “Vatican”
- Kabardian: “Ватикан”
- Kabiyè: “Fatiikaŋ”
- Kabyle: “Vatikan”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Vatikan”
- Kalaallisut: “Vatikani”
- Kalmyk: “Ватикан Балһсн”
- Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್ ನಗರ”
- Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್ ಸಿಟಿ”
- Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Vatikan”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Ватикан”
- Kashmiri: “ویٹِکَن سِٹی”
- Kashubian: “Watikan”
- Kazakh: “Ватикан”
- Khmer: “បុរីវ៉ាទីកង់”
- Khmer: “បុរីវ៉ាទីកង់”
- Khmer: “វ៉ាទីកង់”
- Kikuyu: “Vatikani”
- Kinaray-A: “Hangbanwa kang Batikano”
- Kinyarwanda: “Vatikani”
- Kirghiz: “Ватикан”
- Kölsch: “Vatikan”
- Komi-Permyak: “Ватикан”
- Komi: “Ватикан”
- Kongo: “Vatican”
- Korean: “바티칸 시국”
- Korean: “바티칸”
- Korean: “바티칸시티”
- Kotava: “Vatikana”
- Kurdish: “Vatîkan”
- Ladin: “Zità dl Vatican”
- Ladino: “Sivdad del Vatikano”
- Lao: “ນະຄອນ ວາຕິກັນ”
- Lao: “ນະຄອນລັດວາຕິກັງ”
- Latgalian: “Vatikans”
- Latin: “Civitas Vaticana”
- Latin: “Status Civitatis Vaticanæ”
- Latvian: “Vatikāns”
- Lezghian: “Ватикан”
- Ligurian: “Çittæ do Vatican”
- Limburgan: “Vaticaanstad”
- Limburgan: “Vaticaonstad”
- Lingala: “Vatiká”
- Lingala: “Vatikáni”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Site Vatican”
- Literary Chinese: “梵蒂岡”
- Lithuanian: “Vatikanas”
- Lithuanian: “Vatikano miestas”
- Lithuanian: “Vatikano Miesto Valstybė, Šventasis Sostas”
- Liv: “Vatikan”
- Livvi: “Vatikan”
- Lombard: “Cità del Vatican”
- Low German: “Vaticaanstad”
- Low German: “Vatikaan”
- Low German: “Vatikaanstad”
- Lower Sorbian: “Vatikańske město”
- Luba-Katanga: “Nvatika”
- Luxembourgish: “Vatikanstad”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Vatican”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Vãtican”
- Macedonian: “Ватикан”
- Madurese: “Vatikan”
- Magahi: “बेटिकन नगर”
- Magahi: “वेटिकन नगर”
- Maithili: “भ्याटिकन सिटी”
- Malagasy: “Firenen’i Vatikana”
- Malagasy: “Vatican”
- Malagasy: “Vatikàna”
- Malay: “Kota Vatican”
- Malay: “Kota Vatikan”
- Malay: “Vatikan”
- Malayalam: “വത്തിക്കാൻ നഗരം”
- Malayalam: “വത്തിക്കാൻ”
- Maltese: “Belt tal-Vatikan”
- Maltese: “l-Istat tal-Belt tal-Vatikan”
- Maltese: “Stat tal-Belt tal-Vatikan”
- Manipuri: “ꯚꯦꯇꯤꯀꯥꯟ ꯁꯤꯇꯤ”
- Manx: “Ard-valley yn Phaab”
- Maori: “Poho o Pita”
- Marathi: “व्हॅटिकन सिटी”
- Mazanderani: “واتیکان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Vaticano”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vaticano”
- Minangkabau: “Vatikan”
- Mingrelian: “ვატიკანი”
- Mirandese: “Baticano”
- Moksha: “Ватикан”
- Mongolian: “Ватикан хот улс”
- Mongolian: “Ватикан”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لڤاتيكان”
- Nauru: “Batikan”
- Navajo: “Ééʼ Neishoodii Bikin”
- Neapolitan: “Cetate d’u Vaticane”
- Neapolitan: “Cità d’’o Vaticano”
- Neapolitan: “Cità d’o Vaticano”
- Nepali: “भेटिकन सिटी”
- Nepali: “भ्याटिकन सिटी”
- North Ndebele: “Vatican State”
- Northern Frisian: “Watikaanstääd”
- Northern Luri: “واتیکان”
- Northern Sami: “Vatikána”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vatikanet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vatikanstaten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vatikanstaten”
- Norwegian: “Vatikanstaten”
- Novial: “Vatikan Urbe”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Vatican City”
- Obolo: “Vatikan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vatican”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܕܘܛܝܩܢ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Faticanburg”
- Oriya: “ଭାଟିକାନ ସିଟି”
- Oriya: “ଭାଟିକାନ୍ ସିଟି”
- Oromo: “Vaatikaan”
- Ossetian: “Ватикан”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဗာတီကန်သီးတီး”
- Pali: “वैटिकन”
- Pampanga: “Lakanbalen ning Baticanu”
- Pampanga: “Lakanbalen ning Batikánu”
- Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Vatikano”
- Panjabi: “ਵੈਟੀਕਨ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਵੈਟੀਕਨ ਸਿਟੀ”
- Papiamento: “Siudad Vatikano”
- Persian: “واتیکان”
- Pfaelzisch: “Vatikanstadt”
- Pfaelzisch: “Wadigaan”
- Picard: “Vatican”
- Piemontese: “Sità dël Vatican”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Watikan Citii”
- Polish: “Stolica Apostolska (Państwo Watykańskie)”
- Polish: “Stolica Apostolska (Watykan)”
- Polish: “Watykan”
- Pontic: “Βατικανό”
- Portuguese: “Cidade do Vaticano”
- Portuguese: “Colina do Vaticano”
- Portuguese: “Santa Sé (Cidade-Estado do Vaticano)”
- Portuguese: “Vaticano”
- Pushto: “واتيکان”
- Pushto: “واتیکان ښار”
- Pushto: “واتیکان”
- Quechua: “Santa Sede (Ciudad del Vaticano)”
- Quechua: “Watikanu llaqta”
- Romanian: “Orașul Vatican”
- Romanian: “Sfântul Scaun (Statul Vatican)”
- Romanian: “Vatican”
- Romansh: “Citad dal Vatican”
- Rundi: “Umurwa wa Vatikani”
- Russia Buriat: “Ватикан”
- Russian: “Ватикан”
- Russian: “Государство-город Ватикан”
- Rusyn: “Ватікан”
- Sakizaya: “Fan-ti-kan”
- Samoan: “Aai o Vatikana”
- Samogitian: “Vatikans”
- Sango: “Letëe tî Vatikäan”
- Sanskrit: “वैटिकन”
- Santali: “ᱵᱷᱮᱴᱤᱠᱟᱱ ᱥᱤᱴᱤ”
- Saraiki: “ویٹیکن سٹی”
- Sardinian: “Tzitade de su Vaticanu”
- Saterfriesisch: “Vatikanstääd”
- Saterfriesisch: “Vatikoanstääd”
- Scots: “Vatican Ceety”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cathair na Bhatacain”
- Serbian: “Vatikan”
- Serbian: “Ватикан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vatikan”
- Shan: “ဝႃႇတီႇၵၼ်ႇသီးတီး”
- Shona: “Vatican City”
- Shona: “Vatican State”
- Shona: “Vhatikani”
- Sicilian: “Cità dû Vaticanu”
- Sicilian: “Citati dû Vaticanu”
- Silesian: “Watykan”
- Silesian: “Watykůn”
- Sindhi: “ويٽڪين سٽي”
- Sindhi: “ويٽيڪن سٽي”
- Sinhala: “වතිකානු නගරය”
- Sinhala: “වතිකානු පුරය”
- Sinhala: “වතිකානුව”
- Skolt Sami: “Vatikaan”
- Slovak: “Svätá stolica (Vatikánsky mestský štát)”
- Slovak: “Vatikán”
- Slovenian: “Vatikan”
- Somali: “Faatikaan”
- Somali: “Faatikan”
- South Azerbaijani: “واتیکان”
- Southern Sotho: “Vatican City”
- Spanish: “Ciudad del Vaticano”
- Spanish: “El Vaticano”
- Spanish: “Santa Sede (Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano)”
- Spanish: “Santa Sede”
- Sranan Tongo: “Presi fu Vatikanikondre”
- Sundanese: “Vatikan”
- Swahili: “Mji wa Vatican”
- Swahili: “Vatikani”
- Swati: “IVathikhi”
- Swedish: “Heliga stolen (Vatikanstaten)”
- Swedish: “Vatikanen”
- Swedish: “Vatikanstaten”
- Swiss German: “Vatikan”
- Sylheti: “ꠅꠣꠔꠤꠇꠣꠘ ꠘꠉꠞꠤ”
- Sylheti: “ꠜꠦꠐꠤꠇꠣꠘ ꠌꠤꠐꠤ”
- Tachelhit: “Afatikan”
- Tachelhit: “Lvatikan”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Batikano”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Vaticano”
- Tajik: “Вотикон”
- Tajik: “Шаҳри Вотикон”
- Talysh: “Vatikan”
- Tamil: “வத்திக்கான் நகர்”
- Tamil: “வாடிகன் நகரம்”
- Tatar: “Ватикан”
- Telugu: “వాటికన్ నగరం”
- Tetum: “Vatikanu”
- Thai: “นครรัฐวาติกัน”
- Thai: “วาติกัน”
- Tibetan: “ཝ་ཏི་ཀན་གྲོང་ཁྱོར།”
- Tibetan: “ཝེ་ཊི་ཀན།”
- Tigrinya: “ቫቲካን”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kolo Vatikani”
- Tsonga: “Vatican City”
- Tunisian Arabic: “الڥاتيكان”
- Turkish: “Vatikan”
- Turkmen: “Watikan”
- Twi: “Vatican City”
- Udmurt: “Ватикан”
- Uighur: “Watikan Shehiri”
- Uighur: “ۋاتىكان شەھىرى”
- Uighur: “ۋاتىكان”
- Ukrainian: “Ватикан”
- Ukrainian: “Місто Ватикан”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vatikanske město”
- Urdu: “ویٹیکن سٹی”
- Uzbek: “Vatikan shahri”
- Uzbek: “Vatikan”
- Venetian: “Sità del Vategan”
- Veps: “Vatikan”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Vatican”
- Vietnamese: “Thành Vatican”
- Vietnamese: “Va-ti-căng”
- Vlaams: “Vaticoanstad”
- Vlax Romani: “Vatican”
- Volapük: “Vatikän”
- Võro: “Vatikan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Vaticano”
- Welsh: “Dinas y Fatican”
- Welsh: “y Fatican”
- Welsh: “Y Fatican”
- Western Armenian: “Վատիկան”
- Western Frisian: “Fatikaanstêd”
- Western Frisian: “Vaticaanstêd”
- Western Panjabi: “وَیٹیکن سِٹی”
- Western Panjabi: “ویٹیکن”
- Wolof: “Site bu Watikaa”
- Wolof: “Watikaa”
- Wu Chinese: “梵蒂冈”
- Xhosa: “EsikaPhapha”
- Yakut: “Ватикаан”
- Yakut: “Ватикан”
- Yiddish: “וואַטיקאַן שטאָט”
- Yiddish: “וואטיקאן”
- Yoruba: “Ìlú Fatikan”
- Yoruba: “Ìlú Vatican”
- Yue Chinese: “梵蒂岡”
- Zeeuws: “Vaticaânstad”
- Zhuang: “Vatican”
- Zulu: “i-Vatican City”
- Zulu: “Indolobha yaseVathikhani”
- “Āltepētl in Vaticano”
- “ma tomo Wasikano”
- “ma Wasikano”
- “Vatikan”
- “वेटिकन सिटी”
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