Map of Vatican City

Vatican City is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 41.9° N, 12.4° E. Vatican City is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 1 neighbour — Italy — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Vatican City is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Vatican City is surrounded by the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Vatican City covers about 0.49 km² (0.19 sq mi). That makes it the 197th-largest country in the world by area and the smallest country in Europe by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 882, the 197th-largest in the world and the 45th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Vatican City has an average population density of about 1,800 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 45th by population and 45th by area.

The seat of government is Vatican City, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are Italian and Latin. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Vatican City carries the ISO country codes VA and VAT, dials on the international calling code +379 and uses the .va internet domain.

Vatican City shares its land borders with 1 country, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Italy (capital Rome, about 58,927,633 people).

By area, Vatican City is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 41.9° N, 12.4° E and opens at zoom level 11, framing Vatican City within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Vatican City. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Vatican City lies about 4,651 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Vatican City keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are Italian and Latin, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +379 and websites commonly use the .va internet domain.

In short, Vatican City is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Vatican City. Vatican City has a population of about 882 and covers around 0.49 km² (0.19 sq mi), ranking it 197th in the world by population and 197th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Vatican City.

The flag of Vatican City is square shaped. It is composed of two equal vertical bands of yellow and white, with national coat of arms centered in the white band. The national coat of arms comprises the Papal Tiara superimposed on two crossed keys.

The flag of Vatican City is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.