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Vatican City, officially Vatican City State, is a landlocked sovereign city-state (walled enclave) within the Italian city of Rome. With an area of only 110 acres (0.17 square miles) and a 2018 population of around 840 inhabitants, Vatican City is the smallest internationally recognized independent state in the world. Also the sovereign territory of the Holy See (the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome), Vatican City is an ecclesiastical state ruled by the Bishop of Rome – the Pope. The Popes have resided in the Apostolic Palace of Vatican since 1929. Vatican City was established as an independent state in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty, which was signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri, on behalf of Pope Pius XI and by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini on behalf of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. As of March, 2013, Vatican City is ruled by Pope Francis. Vatican brief history and facts
The first church, the Constantinian basilica, was built on Vatican’s current territory in 326, but it was only in 592 when Pope Gregory I accepted the role of the Bishop of Rome. Popes gradually came to govern neighboring regions and even ruled a large portion of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years. It all ended in the mid 19th century, when all of the territory belonging to the Papacy was seized by the Kingdom of Italy, forcing the Popes to use the Lateran Palace and the Quirinal Palace as habitual residence. Vatican’s situation was resolved on 11 February 1929, when the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy was signed.