Is vatican really the smallest country in the world, are there any other countries as small?

Answer 1

There has been some question by some if the Vatican City (Holy See) is actually a country. I think that it is a country(the worlds smallest) because it has sovereignty. Meaning, no other state has power over the country's territory.

Answer 2

Yes, Vatican City (also called the Holy See) is the smallest country in the world.
San Marino, Monaco, Singapore, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Timor, and Andorra are pretty small, too.

Answer 3

Some would say that the Knights of Malta are the smallest sovereign nation.

After the loss of the island of Malta, the Order settled permanently in Rome, Italy, in 1834. Its two headquarters, granted with extraterritoriality, are the Palazzo Malta in Via dei Condotti 68 - where the Grand Master resides and Government Bodies meet - and the Villa Malta on the Aventine. The latter hosts the Grand Priory of Rome, the Embassy of the Order to the Holy See and the Embassy of the Order to the Italian Republic.

The offices in Rome are recognized as being outside the jurisdiction of Italy.

Answer 4

Vatican City formally State of the Vatican City, or Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano, Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae) — is a sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a landlocked, almost completely walled, enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. The entire state is about 44 hectares (108.7 acres) and thus is a European microstate. It is the smallest independent nation in the world created in 1929 by the Lateran treaties and a vestige of the the much larger former Papal States (756 A.D. to 1870 A.D.).

Since it is governed by the Bishop of Rome (the Pope), its government can be described as ecclesiastical and the highest state functionaries are in fact clergymen. It is the sovereign territory of the Holy See (Latin:Sancta Sedes) and the location of the Apostolic Palace — the Pope's official residence — and the Roman Curia. Thus, although the principal ecclesiastical seat of the Holy See (Basilica of St. John Lateran) is located in Rome itself, the Vatican City can be said to be the governmental capital of the Catholic Church of both East and West

The place name is ancient and predates Christianity, coming from the Latin Mons Vaticanus, Vatican Hill. It is part of the Mons Vaticanus, and of the adjacent former Vatican Fields upon which St. Peter's Basilica, the residence of the popes called the Apostolic Palace, with its Sistine Chapel, and museums were built, along with various other buildings. The area until 1929 was part of the roman rione of Borgo. Being separated from the city by the river Tiber, it was an outcrop of the city which was protected by being included by the walls of Leo IV. When the 1929 Lateran treaties that gave the state its present form were being prepared, the fact that a good part of the proposed territory was all but enclosed by this loop led to the present territorial definition being adopted. For some tracts of the frontier there was no wall, but the line of certain buildings supplied part of the boundary, and for a small part of the frontier a modern wall was constructed. The territory included St. Peter's Square, which it was not possible to isolate from the rest of Rome and therefore a largely imaginary border with Italy runs along the outer limit of the square where it touches on Piazza Pio XII and Via Paolo VI.

Although technically not included within the territory of the Vatican City State, according to the Lateran treaties, certain properties of the Holy See have an extraterritorial status similar to that of foreign embassies. These include the papal summer residence of Castelgandolfo in the nearby hills, the Lateran Basilica, the basilicas of St. Mary Major and of St Paul Outside the Walls, and a number of other buildings in Rome. Castelgandolfo and the named basilicas are patrolled internally by police agents of the Vatican City State and not by Italian police. St. Peter's Square is ordinarily policed jointly by both

Answer 5

Yes, Vatican is the smallest sovereign state. The next smallest is Nauru (in the Pacific). The New Zealand dependency of Tokelau would have been next smallest (it's smaller than Nauru) but at the referendum they had earlier this year they voted to stay under N.Z. rule.

Answer 6

Vatican City is the smallest sovereign nation at .44 sq. km. Monaco is second at 1.95 and Nauru is third with 21 sq.km.

Answer 7

San Marino is a very small country in Italy too.Andorra is also a very small european country.And Lichtenstain!Look also to Tuvalu in Pacific Ocean or Kiribati Islands("close" to Tuvalu).
I guess there are more

Answer 8

yes it is,as mentioned above.other countries as small are Singapore,Togo,Malta,Guinea-Bissau,Brunei etc