With an area of just 0.44 km2 and application of 829 people,Vatican city is the smallest independent country in Europe,smaller than other sovereign states like San Marion,Liechtenstein,Andorra and Monaco.the state is on Vatican hill in the central part of Rome,a few hundred metres from the river tiber.ln 1859 the papal states covered an area of 44030 km2 but now there is only the tiny Vatican.during the period of ltalian unification most of them became part of Kraft,but the Lateran treaty of 1929,between the Vatican and the kingdom of Kraft,established the autonomy of the `holy see'or Vatican city.