Vatican City is officially the Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano; Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is the Holy See's independent city-state enclaved within Rome, Italy. Vatican City became independent from Italy with the Lateran Treaty (1929), and it is a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity of international law, which maintains the city state's temporal, diplomatic, and spiritual independence.
With an area of 49 hectares (121 acres) and a population of about 805, it is the smallest sovereign state in the world by both area and population.
The current population of Vatican City is , based on projections of the latest United Nations data. The UN estimates the July 1, 2020 population at 801.
Quite a small Country that consumes more wine than the rest of the world, the Vatican City consumes more wine per head, with a record that states each Vatican resident drinks 74 L of wine annually, which is roughly 105 bottles a year per person.
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