Top 5 Surprising Facts About the Vatican

Name: Top 5 Surprising Facts About the Vatican
Uploaded: 2026-09-24T16:53:58-04:00
Description: Vatican City, the smallest sovereign state in the world, home of the pope, is a country shrouded in opulence and mystery. In this episode of Top 5 Facts, we pull back the curtain on some of the most interesting facts about this historical place.

VOICE OVER: Chris Masson

Written by William Regot

Vatican City, the smallest sovereign state in the world, home of the pope, is a country shrouded in opulence and mystery. What kind of a place actually has Latin as an official language? Yup, Pope Francis just chills in Saint Peter's Basilica all day, waxing his popemobile, fretting about Vatican City's weirdly high crime rate. (Or, at least, that's what we like to imagine.) In this episode of Top 5 Facts, we pull back the curtain on some of the most interesting facts about this historical place.

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#7: Written by William Regot
#6: Top 5 Vatican Facts
#5: Vatican City Has the World's Highest Crime Rate
#4: There Has Only Been One Reported Murder in The Vatican
#3: Vatican City Is the First Carbon Neutral State
#2: The Vatican Archives Is a Historical Who's Who
#1: The ATMs Speak Latin

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Vatican, Pope, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Popemobile, Rome, Italy, Vatican City, Latin, Vatican crime rate, Crime rate in Vatican city, the vatican, Saint Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo, Vatican archives,