Vatican City Explained

[kreglfromworld]

Pope: "oh, there's just someone else I have to introduce you to.."
*changes hats and speaks in a different tone* "Hello, I'm the king"

[clickbaitking]

Vatican City is a half square mile in land. So technically that means there is 2 popes per square mile

[finneganmanthe]

0:55 Interesting story here; During the siege of Rome, the pope said that whoever ordered the attack would be excommunicated. With most of the Italian high command being catholic, this proved quite the dilemma. They solved it by finding a random Jewish soldier and promoting him so that he could order it.

[JohnSmith-kjod]

Vatican city : 500 people
Indian weddings : damn small crowd

[druffner]

Have you ever noticed that the Pope and King of the Vatican are NEVER in the same room together

[emilycanfield]

"Catholic related jobs"

*shows giftshop sign* lmaoo

[sebastiansuarez]

"Do you know the king of the Vatican?"
The Pope: "Well, of course I know him. He's me".

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

4:50 Not quite; the UN only recognizes The Holy See as an observer, it is not a member and never has been. The Holy See has the right to attend UN assemblies as an entity, but it cannot put forward candidates, submit proposals or vote in any manner. The UN does not allow Vatican City membership due to it not supporting its citizens, but it does recognize that The Holy See holds sovereign statehood over Vatican City.

And just to make things even more complicated: 2:25 technically the Pope as the bishop of Rome (defined as the lead bishop of the Catholic Church) has his bishop seat (cathedra) in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, outside of the Vatican. Yes he may sit more often on the 'throne' in St. Peter's Basilica but that's not where his official 'seat' is.

[Exilis]

It was meant to be called "The Holy Seat" but there was a smudge on the paper.

[nicm.]

We were talking about remaining absolute monarchies in my history class, and i said vatican city was one. I could tell nobody believed me 😭

[dataman]

I actually circumnavigated Vatican City because of this video. Took about 45 minutes and there isn't a sidewalk for about half of it, making some corners pretty dangerous to walk around. Regardless it was very rewarding and a lot of fun!

[Vileplume]

Italy:**exists**
Vatican: *Ima pretend I didn’t see that*

[Hammsterofficial]

There is one interesting aspect of the Lateran Treaty with regard to citizenship that you forgot to mention: if any Vatican citizen, during the course of his / her work for the Holy See should lose all other citizenship, then upon completion of said work and concurrent loss of Vatican citizenship, said individual is automatically granted Italian citizenship.

[guardingdark]

So..if he is King and Pope at the same time, does that mean he could wear TWO fancy hats if he wanted to?

[mxpwbio]

Teacher: The test isn't that confusing.
The Test:

[somerandomdudeontheinterne]

we have to watch this for geography class and ive never been happier in my life

[thewatcherinthecloud]

5:56 "No, I can't go home, mom. I run the gift shop in the Vatican; I live here now!"

[popalupa]

I walked across St. Peter's Square, which technically means I walked across a country in a few minutes.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

"the largest church in the world" According to the Guinness World Records, it is the second-biggest. The largest church in the world is actually the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire with an area of 30, 000 square meters (320, 000 sq ft). Ironically, it was modeled after Saint Peter's Basilica. Though St. Peter's can accommodate more worshippers at 60K compared to Our Lady of Peace's 18K.

Also 3:22 Qatar is NOT an absolute monarchy but rather a semi-constitutional one. However, although the UAE is considered a federal semi-constitutional monarchy, the rulers of each emirate is an absolute monarch

[greysky]

A very informative and useful video on the complicated structure of the Vatican. A must watch.