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The True Size of Vatican City

Someone recently put together an interesting infographic bringing attention to the (perhaps) unexpected relative size of Africa in comparison to a group of countries.

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I’ve always been interested in the extremes of scale, so I put together a similar graphic for the world’s smallest sovereign state, Vatican City, a country of less than a square kilometer in area.

» Posted: Thursday, December 23, 2010 | Comments (2) | Permanent Link
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HI! THis is wierd but I like it. BYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):))::);0;0:):):);0:):);0:):);0;0;0

» Posted by Bob on March 7, 2011 02:34 PM

I once circumnavigated the Vatican, on foot - that is, walked around it immediately outside its borders. I figured that was the only country feasible to do so to, as Liechtenstein, San Marino, and Andorra are too mountainous and Monaco has a water border. This one just required strolling along some streets of Rome, and took about 45 minutes.

» Posted by DB on June 26, 2011 12:07 PM