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The world's tiniest nation is so small you could stroll across it in just a few minutes, and it sits entirely inside another city.
Vatican City is a fully sovereign state with its own government and international recognition, despite covering less than half a square kilometer entirely enclosed within Rome. Its small size stems from its history as the remaining independent territory of the papacy after Italian unification absorbed the much larger Papal States, formalized as a separate country in 1929.
Monaco is also tiny but noticeably larger in area, while Nauru, a small Pacific nation, is larger still and not enclosed within another city, making Vatican City uniquely small among sovereign states.
Despite its size, Vatican City holds immense cultural weight, housing the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica, and functions as the spiritual center for over a billion Catholics worldwide.
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