{"id":333899,"date":"2025-04-23T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=333899"},"modified":"2025-04-25T17:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:25:23","slug":"key-facts-about-vatican-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-vatican-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Vatican City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and sovereign of the Vatican City State, will be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. <strong>Vatican City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Key Facts about Vatican City<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333951\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-333951\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Vatican-city.png?resize=389%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Vatican city\" width=\"389\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Vatican-city.png?w=466&amp;ssl=1 466w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Vatican-city.png?resize=273%2C300&amp;ssl=1 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- WorldAtlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>smallest sovereign country in the world<\/strong>, covering about 44 hectares (110 acres).<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>landlocked within Rome<\/strong>, Italy, and became independent from Italy with the signing of the <strong>Lateran Treaty in 1929.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is situated on the west bank of the <strong>Tiber River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Religious centre<\/strong>: It is the <strong>seat of the Pope<\/strong>, the spiritual leader of over a billion Catholics worldwide.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Holy See:<\/strong> It is the <strong>central governing body<\/strong> of the Church and Vatican City, presided over by the <strong>Pope<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It operates <strong>independently<\/strong>, with its own postal system, financial structure, and <strong>no income tax<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The city is home to <strong> Peter&#8217;s Basilica, Vatican Museums<\/strong>, <strong>Sistine Chapel<\/strong> with frescoes by <strong>Michelangelo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was designated a <strong>UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and sovereign of the Vatican City State, will be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. Vatican City. Key Facts about Vatican City It is the smallest sovereign country in the world, covering about 44 hectares (110 acres). It is landlocked within Rome, Italy, and became&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-vatican-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key Facts about Vatican City<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":333951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-333899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Vatican-city.png?fit=466%2C512&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}