Vatican
Vaticano is a district of Rome measuring 225.2 hectares, it encompasses the 49 hectares Vatican City State, as well as the surrounding Roman neighbourhoods of Borgo and Prati.Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Michelangelo, Public domain.
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Saint Peter's Basilica
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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church built in the Renaissance style located in Vatican City, the papal enclave that is within the city of Rome, Italy.
St. Peter's Square
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Saint Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood of Borgo.
Vatican museum
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The Vatican Museums are the public museums of Vatican City.
Localities in the Area
Trastevere
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Trastevere is a district in Rome. The district's name derives from the Latin words "Trans Tiberem": beyond the Tiber river.
Vatican
- Categories: sovereign state, city-state, enclave, landlocked country, city, tourist attraction, Mediterranean country, border town, country, religious complex, institutional complex, urban area, tourist destination, confessional state and locality
- Location: Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.90381° or 41° 54' 14" northLongitude
12.45316° or 12° 27' 11" eastPopulation
453Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)Capital
Vatican CityCurrency
Euro (EUR)Phone code
.vaInternet domain
379Open Location Code
8FHJWF33+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 424311883OpenStreetMap Feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3164670Wikidata ID
Q237Vatican Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Vatikan
- Abkhazian: Ватикан
- Achinese: Vatikan
- Afar: Vatikan
- Afrikaans: Vatikaanstad
- Akan: Vatican City
- Akan: Vatican Man
- Albanian: Vatikan
- Albanian: Vatikani
- Amharic: ቫቲካን ከተማ
- Angika: वेटिकन नगर
- Arabic: Syudad han Vaticano
- Arabic: الفاتيكان
- Arabic: دولة مدينة الفاتيكان
- Aragonese: Ciudat d'o Vaticano
- Armenian: Վատիկան
- Arpitan: Vatican
- Assamese: ভেটিকান চিটি
- Asturian: Ciudá del Vaticanu
- Asturian: Estáu de la Ciudá del Vaticanu
- Asturian: Vaticanu
- Avaric: Vatikana
- Avaric: Ватикан
- Azerbaijani: Vatikan
- Balinese: Vatikan
- Bambara: Vatikaŋ
- Bashkir: Ватикан
- Basque: Vatikano
- Basque: Vatikano Hiria
- Bavarian: Vatikan
- Bavarian: Vatikanstaat
- Bavarian: Vatikanstod
- Belarusian: Ватыкан
- Belarusian: Сьвяты Пасад
- Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান সিটি
- Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান সিটির সামরিক বাহিনী
- Bhojpuri: वेटिकन सिटी
- Bishnupriya: ভ্যাটিকান সিটি
- Bislama: Vatican Siti
- Bosnian: Vatikan
- Breton: Keoded ar Vatikan
- Breton: Vatikan
- Bulgarian: Ватикан
- Bulgarian: Ватикана
- Bulgarian: Светия престол
- Bulgarian: Свещено море (Ватиканска държава)
- Burmese: ဗာတီကန်
- Burmese: ဗာတီကန်စီးတီး
- Catalan: Ciutat del Vaticà
- Catalan: Estat de la Ciutat del Vaticà
- Catalan: Vaticà
- Catalan: el Vaticà
- Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Batikano
- Central Bikol: Ciudad nin Vaticano
- Central Bikol: Syudad nin Vaticano
- Central Kurdish: ڤاتیکان
- Chavacano: Ciudad del Vaticano
- Chechen: Ватикан
- Cherokee: ᏩᏘᎧᏂ
- Cherokee: ᏩᏘᎧᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ
- Cherokee: ᏪᏗᎧᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ
- Chinese: Fàndìgāng
- Chinese: Vaticano
- Chinese: 梵蒂冈
- Chinese: 梵蒂岡
- Chinese: 梵蒂岡城國
- Chinese: 聖座
- Church Slavic: Ватиканъ
- Chuvash: Ватикан
- Cornish: Cita Vatikan
- Corsican: Cità di u Vaticanu
- Crimean Tatar: Vatikan
- Croatian: Grad Vatikan
- Croatian: Sveta Stolica (Država Vatikanskog Grada)
- 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: VA
- Dutch: VAT
- Dutch: Vaticaanstad
- Dzongkha: བ་ཊི་ཀཱན་
- Dzongkha: བ་ཊི་ཀཱན་ སི་ཊི
- Dzongkha: བ་ཊི་ཀཱན།
- Eastern Mari: Ватикан
- Egyptian Arabic: مدينة الڤاتيكان
- English: Città del Vaticano
- English: Civitas Vaticana
- English: Holy See (Vatican City State)
- English: Holy See
- English: Papal State
- English: State of Vatican City
- English: Stato della Città del Vaticano
- English: Status Civitatis Vaticanae
- English: The Vatican
- English: Vatican City
- English: Vatican City State (Holy See)
- English: Vatican City State
- English: Vatican Hill
- English: va
- English: vat
- Erzya: Ватикан Мастор
- Esperanto: VA
- Esperanto: Vatikano
- Esperanto: Vatikanurbo
- 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: Città del Vaticano
- Finnish: Civitas Vaticana
- Finnish: Kirkkovaltio
- Finnish: Pyhä istuin (Vatikaani)
- Finnish: Stato della Città del Vaticano
- Finnish: Status Civitatis Vaticanae
- Finnish: Vatikaani
- Finnish: Vatikaaninvaltio
- 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: VA
- French: Vatican
- French: va
- French: État de la Cité du Vatican
- Friulian: Citât dal Vatican
- Fulah: Dowla Waticaan
- Fulah: Watikan
- Gagauz: Vatikan
- Galician: Cidade do Vaticano
- Galician: Vaticano
- Ganda: Vatikaani
- Georgian: ვატიკანი
- Georgian: ქალაქი ვატიკანი
- German: Staat Vatikanstadt
- German: Staat der Vatikanstadt
- German: Vatikan
- German: Vatikanstadt
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Vatican City
- Goan Konkani: Vatican City
- 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
- Hakka Chinese: Vaticano
- Hausa: Batikan
- Hausa: Vatican
- Hausa: Wakikana
- Hawaiian: Wakikana
- Hebrew: הוותיקן
- Hebrew: וטיקאן
- Hebrew: ותיקן
- Hebrew: עיר הותיקן
- Hebrew: קריית הוותיקן
- Hindi: वेटिकन सिटि
- Hindi: वैटिकन
- Hindi: वैटिकन नगर
- Hungarian: Vatikán
- Hungarian: Vatikánváros
- Hungarian: Vatikán Állam
- Icelandic: Páfagarður
- Icelandic: Vatíkanið
- Ido: Vatikano
- Igbo: Ama Ukwu Vatikan
- Igbo: Vatican City
- Iloko: Siudad ti Batikano
- Inari Sami: Vatikaan
- Inari Sami: Vatikaanriijkâ
- Inari Sami: Vatikaanstaatâ
- Inari Sami: Vatikaanväldikodde
- Indonesian: Kota Vatikan
- Indonesian: Vatikan
- Ingush: Ватикан
- Interlingua: Citate Vatican
- Interlingua: Citate del Vaticano
- Interlingue: Vaticano
- Irish: Cathair na Vatacáine
- Italian: Città Vaticano
- Italian: Città del Vaticano
- Italian: Colle Vaticano
- Italian: Santa Sede (Città del Vaticano)
- Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano
- Italian: Vaticano
- Jamaican Creole English: Vatikan
- Jamaican Creole English: Vatikan Siti
- 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)
- Japanese: ヴァチカン
- Japanese: ヴァティカン
- Javanese: Kutha Vatikan
- Javanese: Vatikan
- Kabardian: Ватикан
- Kabiyè: Fatiikaŋ
- Kabyle: Vatikan
- Kalaallisut: Vatikani
- Kalmyk: Ватикан Балһсн
- Kannada: ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್
- Kannada: ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್ ನಗರ
- Kannada: ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್ ಸಿಟಿ
- Kara-Kalpak: Vatikan
- Karachay-Balkar: Ватикан
- Kashmiri: واٹِکَن سِٹی
- Kashmiri: ویٹِکَن سِٹی
- Kashubian: Watikan
- Kazakh: Ватикан
- Khmer: បុរីវ៉ាទីកង់
- Khmer: បុរីវ៉ាទីកង់
- Kikuyu: Vatikani
- Kinaray-A: Hangbanwa kang Batikano
- Kinaray-A: Siyudad kang Batikano
- Kinaray-A: Syodad kang Batikano
- Kinyarwanda: Vatikani
- Kirghiz: Ватикан
- Komi-Permyak: Ватикан
- Komi: Ватикан
- Kongo: Vatican
- Korean: 교황령
- Korean: 바티칸
- Korean: 바티칸 시국
- Korean: 바티칸시티
- Korean: 바티칸 시티
- Kotava: Vatikana
- Kurdish: Vatîkan
- Kölsch: Vatikan
- Ladin: Zità dl Vatican
- Ladino: Sivdad del Vatikano
- Lao: Siudad ti Batikano
- Lao: ນະຄອນລັດວາຕິກັງ
- Lao: ນະຄອນ ວາຕິກັນ
- Latgalian: Vatikans
- Latin: Civitas Vaticana
- Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae
- Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanæ
- Latvian: Vatikāns
- Lezghian: Ватикан
- Ligurian: Çittæ do Vatican
- Limburgan: Vaticaanstad
- Lingala: Vatiká
- Lingala: Vatikáni
- Lingua Franca Nova: Site Vatican
- Literary Chinese: 梵蒂岡
- Lithuanian: Vatikanas
- Lithuanian: Vatikano Miesto Valstybė, Šventasis Sostas
- Lithuanian: Vatikano miestas
- 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
- Macedonian: Ватикан
- Madurese: Vatikan
- Maithili: भ्याटिकन सिटी
- Malagasy: Firenen’i Vatikana
- Malagasy: Vatican
- Malagasy: Vatikàna
- Malay: Kota Vatican
- Malay: Kota Vatikan
- Malay: Vatikan
- Malayalam: വത്തിക്കാൻ
- Malayalam: വത്തിക്കാൻ നഗരം
- Maltese: Belt tal-Vatikan
- Maltese: Santa Sede
- Maltese: Stat tal-Belt tal-Vatikan
- Maltese: Vatikan
- Maltese: l-Istat tal-Belt tal-Vatikan
- Manipuri: ꯚꯥꯇꯤꯀꯥꯟ
- Manipuri: ꯚꯦꯇꯤꯀꯥꯟ
- Manipuri: ꯚꯦꯇꯤꯀꯥꯟ ꯁꯤꯇꯤ
- Manx: Ard-valley yn Phaab
- Maori: Poho o Pita
- Maori: Watikana
- Marathi: व्हॅटिकन सिटी
- Mazanderani: واتیکان
- Min Dong Chinese: Huàng-dá̤-gŏng
- Min Dong Chinese: Vatican
- Min Dong Chinese: Vaticano
- Min Nan Chinese: Vatican
- Min Nan Chinese: Vaticano
- Minangkabau: Vatikan
- Mingrelian: ვატიკანი
- Mirandese: Baticano
- Moksha: Ватикан
- Mongolian: Ватикан
- Mongolian: Ватикан хот улс
- Mongolian: ꯚꯦꯇꯤꯀꯥꯟ ꯁꯤꯇꯤ
- Moroccan Arabic: لڤاتيكان
- Narom: Vatican
- Nauru: Batikan
- Navajo: Ééʼ Neishoodii Bikin
- 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: Vatikanstáhta
- Northern Sami: Vatikána
- Norwegian: Vatikanstaten
- Norwegian Bokmål: Vatikanet
- Norwegian Bokmål: Vatikanstaten
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Vatikanet
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Vatikanstaten
- Novial: Vatikan Urbe
- 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
- 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: Civitas Vaticana
- Portuguese: Colina do Vaticano
- Portuguese: Estado Pontifício
- Portuguese: Estado da Cidade do Vaticano
- Portuguese: Estado do Vaticano
- Portuguese: Santa Sé (Cidade-Estado do Vaticano)
- Portuguese: Stato della Città del Vaticano
- Portuguese: Vaticano
- Pushto: واتیکان ښار
- Pushto: واټيکان ښار
- Quechua: Santa Sede (Ciudad del Vaticano)
- Quechua: Watikanu llaqta
- Romanian: Cetatea Vaticanului
- Romanian: Orașul Vatican
- Romanian: Sfântul Scaun (Statul Vatican)
- Romanian: Statul Cetății Vaticanului
- Romanian: Vatican
- Romansh: Citad dal Vatican
- Rundi: Umurwa wa Vatikani
- Russia Buriat: Ватикан
- Russian: Città del Vaticano
- Russian: Civitas Vaticana
- Russian: Ватикан
- Russian: Государство-город Ватикан
- Rusyn: Ватікан
- 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: Lvatikan
- Serbo-Croatian: Vatikan
- Shan: ဝႃႇတီႇၵၼ်ႇသီးတီး
- Shona: Vatican City
- Shona: Vatican State
- Shona: Vhatikani
- Sicilian: Citati dû Vaticanu
- Sicilian: Cità dû Vaticanu
- Silesian: Watykan
- Silesian: Watykůn
- Sindhi: ويٽيڪن سٽي
- Sindhi: ويٽڪين سٽي
- Sinhala: වතිකානු නගරය
- Sinhala: වතිකානුව
- Skolt Sami: Vatikaan
- Skolt Sami: Vatikaanriikk
- Skolt Sami: Vatikaanvaldia
- Slovak: Svätá stolica (Vatikánsky mestský štát)
- Slovak: Svätá stolica
- Slovak: Vatikán
- Slovak: Vatikánsky mestský štát
- Slovenian: Vatikan
- Somali: Faatikaan
- Somali: Faatikan
- South Azerbaijani: واتیکان
- Southern Sotho: Vatican City
- Spanish: Ciudad del Vaticano
- Spanish: El Vaticano
- Spanish: Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano
- Spanish: Santa Sede
- Spanish: Santa Sede (Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano)
- Spanish: Vaticano
- Spanish: va
- Sranan Tongo: Presi fu Vatikanikondre
- Sundanese: Vatikan
- Swahili: Mji wa Vatican
- Swahili: Vatikani
- Swati: IVathikhi
- Swedish: Città del Vaticano
- Swedish: Civitas Vaticana
- Swedish: Heliga stolen (Vatikanstaten)
- Swedish: Stato della Città del Vaticano
- Swedish: Status Civitatis Vaticanae
- Swedish: Vatikanen
- Swedish: Vatikanstaten
- Swiss German: Vatikan
- Tachelhit: Lvatikan
- Tagalog: Batikano
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Batikano
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Vaticano
- Tagalog: 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
- Tornedalen Finnish: Città del Vaticano
- Tornedalen Finnish: Civitas Vaticana
- Tornedalen Finnish: Stato della Città del Vaticano
- Tornedalen Finnish: Status Civitatis Vaticanae
- Tosk Albanian: Vatikan
- Tsonga: Vatican City
- Tunisian Arabic: الڥاتيكان
- Turkish: Vatikan
- Turkmen: Watikan
- Twi: Vatican City
- Udmurt: Ватикан
- Uighur: Watikan Shehiri
- Uighur: ۋاتىكان
- Uighur: ۋاتىكان شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Status Civitatis Vaticanae
- Ukrainian: Апо́стольська Столиця
- Ukrainian: Ватикан
- Ukrainian: Ватікан
- Ukrainian: Місто Ватикан
- Ukrainian: Престол Святого Петра
- Ukrainian: Святі́йший Престі́л
- Upper Sorbian: Vatikanske město
- Urdu: ویٹیکن سٹی
- Uzbek: Vatikan
- Uzbek: Vatikan shahri
- Venetian: Sità del Vategan
- Veps: Vatikan
- Vietnamese: Thành Vatican
- Vietnamese: Thành phố 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: Fatikaan
- 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
- Yoruba: Ìlú Vatikan
- Yue Chinese: 梵蒂岡
- Zeeuws: Vaticaânstad
- Zhuang: Vatican
- Zulu: Indolobha yaseVathikhani
- Zulu: i-Vatican City
- Cetate d'u Vaticane
- Civitas Vaticana - Città del Vaticano
- Sitê dal Vaticân
- State of the Vatican City
- Vãtican
- Watikan Sitii
- ma Wasikano
- Āltepētl in Vaticano
- वैटिकन सिटी
- ဗာတီကန်သီးတီး
- វ៉ាទីកង់
- 圣座(梵蒂冈)
Other Places Named Vatican
In the Area
- Capitoline HillLocality, 2½ km southeast
- MonteverdeQuarter, 3 km south
- Modern Centre
- Palatine HillLocality, 3 km southeast
- ViminaleLocality, 3½ km east
- North Centre
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