Vatican City State Stato della Città del Vaticano
Anthem:
Location of  Vatican City  (green) on the European continent  (dark grey)  —  [Legend]
Capital	Vatican City
Official languages	Italian
Government	Ecclesiastical; sacerdotal-monarchical; absolute monarchy;elective monarchy; elective theocracy.
• Sovereign	Francis
• Secretary of State	Pietro Parolin
Legislature	Pontifical Commission
Independence from the Kingdom of Italy
• Lateran Treaty	11 February 1929
Area
• Total	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (250th)
Population
• 2023 estimate	764 (240th)
• Density	Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (6th)
Currency	Euro (€)b (EUR)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+379
ISO 3166 code	VA
Internet TLD	.va
Since 1 January 2002 (see Valuta at www.vatican.va, retrieved 23 October 2009). Before 2002, the currency was the Vatican lira, on a par with the Italian lira.

Vatican City (/ˈækən ˈsɪi/ ( listen); officially Vatican City State, Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano) (also sometimes referred to as the Vatican) is the smallest country in the world by size, at 0.49 km² and by population. It is also one of the world's three city-states.

Its territory is completely surrounded by Italy and it is only one of three countries in the world that are enclaves of another country (the others being San Marino, also in Italy, and Lesotho in southern Africa). Also, it is the only country in the world that is an enclave of a city, as all of the land around it is part of Rome, the capital of Italy. The Vatican City is a city-state, because all its territory is urban and built-up.