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How many acres does Vatican City comprise?

   12 acres
   121 acres
   204 acres
   538 acres

Your answer was: 121 acres.
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Answer: Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State, is an independent city state and enclave located within Rome, Italy. The Vatican City State, also known as the Vatican, 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 Holy See, itself a sovereign entity of international law, which maintains the city state's temporal, diplomatic, and spiritual independence.

With an area of 121 acres and a population of about 800, Vatican City is the smallest state in the world by both area and population. By comparison, an Average Golf Course is 1.14 times as big; a Meteor Crater in Arizona is 2.73 times as big; Central Park in New York City is 6.82 times as big; Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is 9.32 times as big. And how about Stanford University. Stanford is 75 times larger than Vatican City.

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