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Country overview: 

Short name	VATICAN CITY
ISO code	VA
FIPS code	VT
Language	Italian (it), Latin (la)
Time zone	+1~
Capital	Vatican City

 

Vatican City is widely recognized as sovereign territory under the rule of the Pope. After the reunification of Italy in the 19th century, this area, plus the Lateran Palace and Castel Gandolfo, was all that was left of the Pope's temporal domain. A treaty of 1929-02-11 formalized the relationship between the Vatican City and Italy.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Vatikanstaten
2. Dutch: Heilige Stoel, Vaticaanstad, Staat Vaticaanstad (formal)
3. English: Holy See (formal), Vatican City State (formal)
4. Finnish: Vatikaani, Vatikaanivaltio
5. French: Saint-Siège m, Vatican m, État m de la Cité f du Vatican m
6. German: Vatikanstadt, Heilige Stuhl, Heiliger Stuhl m, Vatikan m, Staat m Vatikanstadt f
7. Icelandic: Vatíkanið, Páfagarður
8. Italian: Città del Vaticano, Stato m della Città f del Vaticano m (formal)
9. Norwegian: Vatikanstaten
10. Portuguese: Cidade do Vaticano, Santa Sé f, Estado m da Cidade f do Vaticano m (formal)
11. Russian: Ватикан
12. Spanish: Vaticano, Ciudad f del Vaticano m, Santa Sede f
13. Swedish: Vatikanstaten
14. Turkish: Vatikan Şehri Devleti (formal)

Origin of name: 

named for the hill and surrounding area called Vaticanus by the Ancient Romans, from Latin vates: diviner

Primary subdivisions: 

Vatican City has no known administrative divisions.

Country	HASC	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital
Vatican City	VA.VA	829	0	0	Vatican City
Country: This division is the whole of the country, treated as a division for compatibility. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. Population: 2010-07 estimate

Postal code: 

The postal code for Vatican City is 00120 in the Italian system.

Territorial extent: 

The Vatican City consists of less than half a square kilometer, surrounded by Rome, making it the smallest country in the world in area.

The UN LOCODE page  for Vatican City lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Population history:

The Vatican City de jure population (citizens) includes a substantial number of papal ambassadors, or nuncios, who live elsewhere. The de facto population (residents) includes quite a few non-citizens who are there on church business. In most countries, those components of the population are a very small fraction of the population, but they are large in relation to the Vatican's total. Figures shown here are probably de facto.

Census	Population
1932-04-15	1,006
1937	741
1947-03-31	940
1948-04-30	890
1975-07	724
1991	771
2009-07-01	826

 

Sources include Encyclopædia Britannica World Atlas, United Nations Demographic Yearbook, and the Merriam-Webster Geographical Dictionary. All populations are described as census results except for 1975, which is an estimate.