'''Vatican City''', officially the Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano; Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is the [the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See Holy See's] independent city-state enclaved within [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome Rome], [[Country:Italy|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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See 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.