Vatican

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Vatican

COUNTRY

Official Website:
http://www.vaticanstate.va/

Population:
826 (2009 estimate)

Founding Date:
11-Feb-1929 (Lateran Treaty)

Headquarters of the Catholic Church, deemed a nation-state by the Lateran Treaty of 1929. Though it comprises about 800 citizens on a land area of less than 2/10 of a mile inside the Italian city of Rome, the Vatican has sovereignty and observer status at the United Nations.

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