Vatican City

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 5 August 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Vatican City. Vatican City is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. View spans 12.5°E to 12.5°E and 41.9°N to 41.9°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Vatican City is filled. The one other country reaching this view is drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Vatican City. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 41.9°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 12.5°E–12.5°E, 41.9°N–41.9°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Vatican City. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    1 source from Vatican Cityin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • Vatican News

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated only

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.

  3. National legislature

    no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Vatican City, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:55 AM · sunset 7:11 PM12h 16m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    VATuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    No source assessed yet
    Capital
    Vatican Cityuncited
    Official languages
    Italian, Latincited
    Plug type
    No source assessed yet
    Official website
    vaticanstate.va ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    GDP
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    GDP per capita
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Life expectancy at birth
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Exports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Imports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    2 World Heritage Sites

    1. Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura · inscribed 1980 · shared with Italy
    2. Vatican City · inscribed 1984

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 112

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

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  12. Currency

    EUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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