Local time
Tue, 4:35 AM GMT+2Europe/VaticanCityCapital
Vatican City
41.90° N, 12.45° E
- Population
- 832
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 1
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 1 cities of Vatican in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Vatican, so this is not a national ranking.
- Time zone
- Europe/Vatican
Traveler brief
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Practical bearings for Vatican City, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Vatican City have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
The name Vatican City derives from the hill called "Mons Vaticanus", on which the Vatican is located. The Latin "vates", meaning "prophet", referred to fortune tellers and soothsayers who frequented the area in Roman times.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person