Why Vatican City is the Weirdest Country on Earth
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Vatican city is by far the smallest country in the world, in fact it's so small that it's also kind of... weird.
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You can I can even see city from space, but still you can not see Vatican city even though it's name is city and enclaved in a city lol
Why is it spelt "See", I always thought it was spelt "Sea" because that makes sense...?
@khAnubis was there any warnings about CO19 when you went there?
One of the few reasons why Vatican City (as well as San Marino) is useful to us Italians, is to mention a foreign country where we have been: When someone asks an Italian "Have you ever been abroad?", if he has hardly ever moved from home but has been to Rome or Rimini, he has the duty to say "Oh well, sure. I've been to Vatican City and also to San Marino.", and so it makes a better impression.
Another random fact: the Vatican City is one of the few remaining countries that recognize/have diplomatic relationships with Taiwan (ROC) instead of China (PRC).
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The "Geography Now! Vatican City" episode will be so short lol.
Its time to learn geography-now!
Vatican city is in rome.
*end card*
Holy See
@@cowboymooman8776 Would be longer, but I suspect the sections for Music wont exist, or food being just altar bread.....
They can get to 10 min with the history part
@@pspdude2316 history of Charlesmange protecting the Vatican from Lombardy, then the rest is just pope's schirmishes, with then Italy uniting not recognising the Holy See (Vatican) until Mussolini came and did recognise it. There isnt much history other than popes n shit. By the way not insulting Catholicism
0:34 "why is that dude with a cheap egyptian cartoon hat making a vlog in the vatican?"
Does the Pope have more power over the Catholic Church, or the Vatican City?
He has surpreme power...
That is a very interesting question. From what I know, I would say VC because it‘s almost like his private little country in a way, and can change things in the Vatican a lot quicker than he can probably change something about the church. If there are any experts here though, please let us know!
@@KhAnubis It's kind of a weird thing to think about, isn't it? I would figure, though, that the Vatican probably has a lot of boring minor stuff to deal with, like cleaning the one road or whatever, that the Pope can't be bothered to care about because he's too busy being head of the Catholic Church... so maybe in that sense, he is less involved in Vatican affairs and thus (in practice) less powerful in his capacity as ruler of it.
But on the other hand, I can also imagine that he might delegate a lot more authority over the Vatican simply because he *has* a lot more unilateral authority to delegate,. Whereas with the Church his power is more restrained, and the systems he has to operate within are a lot more restrictive and complicated and demanding.
@@JJMcCullough The Vatican has its own Government (shopping in the Vatican is popular in Rome because the Vatican has much lower taxes than Italy, so shopping is much cheaper there than in Italy - and yes, the Vatican has its own shopping center, too), its own laws in General, its own Military (the famous Swiss Guard), its own Police, its own Courts, its own jail (yes), its own Postal Service (it´s very popular to tourists to get a Vatican stamp on their Postcards), its own bank (which became internationally famous for dealing with the Mafia), even the right to produce some Euro-coins for itself (the Euro is also the currency in the Vatican City). The Government of the Vatican has an own technical department responsible from cleaning the debris and careing for electricity and fresh water to running the Shopping Center and decorating St. Peter´s Square for public ceremonies. The Pope is the absolute monarch of the Vatican and its sole Law-maker - but in practise the Government is running the country. All members of the Government are usually Cardinals and all are appointed (and could be dismissed) by the Pope - and only by the Pope, who´s also the only guy who´s watching over their doings (no Parliament exists). But his capacity as Head of a State made him from his rank equal to other State Leader up to the President of the United States - in opposite to all other Church Leaders he is more than "only" a Church Leader. Next to prevent Italian politicians muddling into the affairs of the Roman-Catholic Church this is the main reason for the existence of this state.
The Roman-Catholic Church is of course an organization with really other dimensions than the Vatican and the Pope is of course first and foremost running this organization: an organization with round about a billion members around the world. But it´s the only NGO owning its own state.
May you can make a video about it? Canada and your most loved Province Quebec have a huge Roman-Catholic Church, too, and are participating since a long time in the College of Cardinals.
Btw.: I´m writing "Roman-Catholic Church" because there exists also a Greek-Catholic Church which is also headed by the Pope.
@@JJMcCullough The Vatican has its own Government (shopping in the Vatican is popular in Rome because the Vatican has much lower taxes than Italy, so shopping is much cheaper there than in Italy - and yes, the Vatican has its own shopping center, too), its own laws in General, its own Military (the famous Swiss Guard), its own Police, its own Courts, its own jail (yes), its own Postal Service (it´s very popular to tourists to get a Vatican stamp on their Postcards), its own bank (which became internationally famous for dealing with the Mafia), even the right to produce some Euro-coins for itself (the Euro is also the currency in the Vatican City). The Government of the Vatican has an own technical department responsible from cleaning the debris and careing for electricity and fresh water to running the Shopping Center and decorating St. Peter´s Square for public ceremonies. The Pope is the absolute monarch of the Vatican and its sole Law-maker - but in practise the Government is running the country. All members of the Government are usually Cardinals and all are appointed (and could be dismissed) by the Pope - and only by the Pope, who´s also the only guy who´s watching over their doings (no Parliament exists). But his capacity as Head of a State made him from his rank equal to other State Leader up to the President of the United States - in opposite to all other Church Leaders he is more than "only" a Church Leader. Next to prevent Italian politicians muddling into the affairs of the Roman-Catholic Church this is the main reason for the existence of this state.
The Holy See (Vatican City) is not a member of the United Nations and had never applied for membership but was granted permanent non-member observer state status on April 6, 1964.
Also, Taïwan ( former member ), Kosovo, and Bougainville.
I think It might be weird if the pope joined the United Nations
The Holy See is not the same thing as Vatican City. The Holy See is the Catholic Diocese of Rome.
This video doesn't even scratch the surface of the weird things about the Vatican City-State. But one of the odd things about it is that it does not even conduct its own foreign relations. Rather, the mere fact of its existence is a sort of fig-leaf that gives other countries the excuse to continue to have diplomatic relations with the Holy See; whereas nonstate entities are not nowadays supposed to be permitted to have that kind of status in modern diplomatic law--which is why the Knights of Malta, which no longer runs a state, isn't really treated with the same dignity today.
Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta would be my choice
He mentioned it in the video.
A.K.A The order of Malta
Or the SMHOSJJRM
Talk about a mouthful
Why does Vatican City exist? Answered in one word
KhAnubs: Catholicism
CGP Grey: Mussolini
Mussolicism
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@@renanmaas3502 Catholini
this has been approved by Mussolini
Belgium of course. It's on every map, but as we all agree, it does not actually exist!
well belgium people agree except when it is football time.
God i wish i didn't exist
@@pspdude2316 well that can be arranged.
do you mean south Netherlands?
@@adamczech3534 yes or more spare Dutch.
"What's the the weirdest country on earth?"
Me, a finn: Sweden.
Thank you Eastern Sweden, very cool!
@@billysbilbolag2050 East Sweden and West Finland. Can't go wrong.
Östra Riksdelen
you have clearly never seen Belgium.
@@sirBrouwer No, I haven't been there yet.
Plus that comment was finnish inside humour.
Actually, there are nuns, I think, who have citizenship. Furthermore, there is an extraterritorial children’s hospital just outside. It is a territory of Vatican City.
So it would just take a horny priest and a horny nun plus a home birth to make the first Vatican Citizen in the last 200 hundred years.
Not too far off, if you ask me.
Interesting
Technically not a country but my home regardless, Hong Kong
You guys are Chinese. 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
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bruh that sucks
@@pepsiman1488 dick
Question: does it feel weird to wear the hat when you're outside?
The square mile 'City of London' (not to be confused with Greater London) is generally not subject to the laws of the UK
The Vatican of England
I'm thinking of nauru, country that only covers eight square miles but still somehow ended up having a civil war that killed a third of the people on the island.
Doesn’t it only have around 2,000 people?
@@hispanicyoutubeperson6100 11,000
The Vatican has an heliport so there is airtravel
Flaviano De Simone it’s not public tho
@@Ivyonblond
Who said it had to be public?
The Vatican is like a cross between a regular sovereign state and the territory underneath the International Red Cross headquarters or the United Nations headquarters.
Whatching the intro: for me weirdest is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
4: 30: i knew it
The weirdest thing is that the Vatican passport grants you visa access to very few and highly random countries, such as the UAE
Really?! That is weird!
It's obviously Sealand!!!!
Me: Where's the sound? *fiddles with volume*
Video: Sorry I forgot my mic
"This is Earth"
wow, never would of guessed
Weirdest country? Recognized countries: Andorra, Unrecognized countries included: Transnistria, that place is weird
Sorry this is a year later, but Andorra exists because of the Umayyad Caliphate. When the Islamic/Arabic people conquered the Iberian Peninsula, Andorra broke off from Castille considering itself the Catholics fighting against The Islamic belief. Hope I could clear some stuff up.
Don't forget Kosovo, the organs, drugs and weapons smuggler of Europe.
Transnistria is like going back in time when the Soviet Union still exists. Even its country flag and coat of arms are like if the state decided to stay as a socialist republic.
Very interesting and educational! 😀🇻🇦
I was actually thinking of Bhutan and freaked out when you read my mind
Some facets of the US can be argued to make it seem weird compared to most other nations. Our hyper individualism, and preference for every industry to be for profit are just two examples.
Not really.
There are women living in Vatican City: nuns. So not all inhabitants are men, or priests.
There are also cases of people being born a Vatican citizen: when a member of the Swiss guard is married (which he is allowed in his second term), his wife is allowed to live with him inside the Vatican Walls. There are documented cases (few but it has happened) of a child being born from such a marriage. That child is a born citizen of Vatican City ánd of Switzerland (because of the nationality of the parents.) It is also tradition that the child is baptized by the pope in a private ceremony.
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Not leaving Italy - San Marino is weird too...
Looking east of Italy - Bosnia&Herzegovina
Looking west of Italy - probably Andorra
YAY you didn't say Luxembourg!
Love the mentions of other channels that I watch
explanation about airports just cracked me)) good stuff
Great video! Sidenote: I'm realizing if I watched this without audio or subtitles it would appear to be a fever dream; this is hilarious to me.
I like how he kept referring to other youtubers I don’t know why but I get exited whenever he does that
"Holy office" is the funniest thing I've heard all day.
03:03 Wait, that's incorrect. I was in the Vatican City a few days ago. There is a very tiny hidden village behind the walls with families living there. So women and children live in the Vatican City too. There is a small school, postoffice, trainstation, drugstore and supermarket. Some children don't get behind the wall before they turn 15 years old or something. These children (and grown up adults) have the Vatican City Nationality. It's rare but there are documentaries like about the Vatican Girl Emanuela Orlandi on Netflix. You can't just go there, there is high security. But yes; men, women and children live and are born in the Vatican City.
Back in 1997 I spent Christmas in Rome and I contacted the Head of the Ethiopian College (the last college located with the Vatican) which trains the priests for the Ethiopian Catholic Church who will one day become leaders within their or the wider Church. For two weeks I got to have lunch on the grounds of the Vatican. Also because there are not as many priests or nuns many Monasteries will rent to secular people. The Superior who headed the Maronite Monastery where I was staying was able to get me a pass for Midnight Mass, I was in the front row and Pope St. John Paul II was the presider.
Just wait for the resurrection of the papal states...
I agree with this, the resurrection of Papal States, that's a great thing to dream, let's pray maybe the good Lord allow this in the future🇻🇦
the pope shall rule rome again
I'm thinking Andorra is a weird country. The fact that the heads of state is a Catholic Bishop and the French President. Also San Marino is pretty weird...
It's a Medieval left over, it didn't have a codified constitution until 1993, and not even a Prime Minister until the 1980s! The Andorrans like their weirdness, they actually resisted the constitutional convention creating a republic.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Andorra taking the phrase "just be yourself" to a whole other level. (No, a place like North Korea doesn't count, it's a cheap copy-paste of the Stalinist Soviet Union)
@@ernestolombardo5811
I mean, sure and that's because that's all it has otherwise it'll crumble as it's foundations aren't sturdy.
Me: *Sees title*
Also Me: IDK, Maybe because he's the smallest country on Earth?
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Weirdest country on Earth: Portugal, next question
From what I know the seat of the bishop of rome is in the Lateran Palace.
Since the countries borders are so small, why don't they include those buildings in the country as an enclave?
0:00 Sealand
I was just waiting for the pope too walk by
Do you know that there's an ATM within the Vatican where transaction is done in the Latin language?
Estimated worth is 10 to 15 Billion. Makes it the richest country per residents.
I know this is unrecognized but the weirdest country today for me is Transnistria. it is now a presidential republic but why the heck does it still have the hammer and sickle in it's flag?
Funfact: the vatican has the biggest embacy in vienna
OMG never put your suitcase on a hotel bed, unless you want to give bedbugs a ride back to your home. There's a reason hotels have a luggage stand
Switzerland 🇨🇭 is the weirdest but the coolest.
And the most amazing and neutral, love Switzerland
There are actually women who are citizens of the Vatican. Last number I heard was 30
All nuns
Angela Kindness not necessarily, some are married people. I think the wife of the head of the Swiss Guard holds the nationality. Also probably the curator at the museum and so on
3:03 That's false! In the Vatican there are some families who live there, there are women and children too. They are mostly the families of the Swiss Guards
Two current monarchs of the world are actually Argentinian (Holland and Vatican).
Another weird thing about Vatican City: In Vatican (even if they dont use It) there's the death penality
Just to correct a small mistake. The Pope is the head of the CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Roman Catholic Church is but one of 24 Sui Iuris Churches that makes up the Catholic Communion of Churches. And not all people who are citizens and/or work within Vatican City are Roman Catholic. For example, a co-religious (I am a Maronite) serves as a judge on the Apostolic Signatura (Vatican Supreme Court).
My first ever first comment on a popular channel wow
2:16 The seat of the bishop of Rome is not in Vatican, but in a different church in Rome.
The weirdest country maybe the Soveireign Military Order of Malta -related but different to the Republic of Malta. They are heirs to Hospitaliers, have no territrory, yet they have the status of a country with diplomatic relations with many countries and I think they also have the UN observator status. They also have citizeship and passports yet only applied to the two or three people on the top. As we speak only two people have full citisenship and own passports of the Order.
“Can I string together enough arguments ... or just take up 5 - 8 minutes of your time?”
- the reason no one ever invites me to parties
Well, Andorra is so weird as well
While Vatican City has a monarch, it does not have a king, similar to how Luxembourg also has a monarch but no king. According to the Vatican, the title is simply "sovereign of Vatican City."
Even my bathroom is bigger than Vatican City.
@3:07 That is incorrect. Swiss guards can marry once they reach a certain rank and their wives can live in the Vatican City with them.
KhAnubis: what is the weirdest country in the world?
me, an Italian: San Marino!!
KhAnubis: Vatican City
me: fair enough we have that too
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My pick for weirdest country would have to be the European Union. The fact that many of you are immediately thinking "That's not a country!" is precisely why.
Legally, on paper, the EU is an international organization, and its members are sovereign countries, but in practice, the EU functions like a national government in many respects. The EU passes laws that all member states have to obey, its inhabitants are EU citizens with the right to travel and move within the EU as US citizens can within the United States, and the EU is financed by its citizens' tax dollars with a budget voted on by a European Parliament its citizens elect. The EU even has its own diplomatic service!
I think the only reason we don't consider the EU a country is because its member states still are allowed to keep their own separate diplomatic services, militaries, seats at the UN, and Olympic teams. Even this now may change thanks to Brexit, with the secession of the EU member that has fought the hardest to keep it from becoming a "United States of Europe".
The only thing EU needs is an official army, HOWEVER, EU countries already have a military pact.
Too Long
Vatican citizenship is extended also to the spouse, parents and descendants of a citizen, provided they are living with the person who is a citizen, so...
How can a citizen have a descendant of they cant marry and have sex according to their own beliefs
@@pspdude2316 They are called Swiss Guard and they are not clergy
@@Mittnal are swiss guards citizens
@@pspdude2316 Yes
The weirdest country:
Me a Kyrgyz:Tajikistan
1:16 WE GET IT! You are German, no need to try prove it in almost every video... lmao
He's an American living in Germany
The order of Malta is the weirdest country
The Pope isn’t the King of the Vatican. The closest thing to that is the king of the Romans.
1:41 so all they need for air travel is to build a road first?
Andorra and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta(not Malta) because one has two leaders, one of which is elected by the French people and it is pretty small and the other doesn't even have Any land at all
I think i agree with you, Vatican city is indeed the weirdest country. Andorra would be pretty high on the list as well though.
If I was gonna use one word to explain with Vatican City exist as a country I'd say "Mussolini".
Me realizing vatican city isn't an island near Italy: 👁️👄👁️
I wish you would have covered more on the giant lizard head auditorium or the stolen Egyptian obelisk outside in the courtyard. That's probs a bit more "weird" as the supposed seat of Yeshua bin Joseph's (Jesus Christ as you all call Him) legacy on Earth, yeah?
I just met him right now on a bus to London from Belgium!
I am thinking of the HRE, even though they don't exist anymore...
Belgium. After some thinking, I have to pick Belgium.
Vatican city is NOT entirely composed of celibate men. Swiz guards can be married and their wives does live within the Vatican.
My thoughts were Tanzania
The City of London would be the weirdest country in my opinion.
The Holy See is not located in the Vatican, nor is it the main Cathedral of the Pope, in reality that place is Saint John of Lateran in Rome
The guy with king Tuts crown is making feeling judgments about other countries...yeah that sounds logical 🙄😒😐
There are non-countries that are very much a country, and "countries" that doesn't seem like a country (and maybe even territory-free)
I think San Marino is weirder than Vatican City. The Vatican's existence makes perfect sense. At least the Vatican makes sense because it is suppose to be the head of the largest christian denomination on earth. They have there own country so the church can't be controlled by the political leaders of Italy. Also giving the pope his own country allows Italy to be a secular democracy without the pope and cardinals being able to control its laws. If not for Vatican independence Italy would become Catholic Saudi Arabia where their is no separation of church and state
San Marino on the other hand is just a small city in Italy that doesn't have the same religious importance as the Vatican. It is also not as powerful as other Italian Cities like Florence, Venice and Milan. Also it is a republic unlike most of Europe's mircostates which are duchies and principalities (Luxembourg, Andorra, Monaco, Vatican and Liechtenstein). These mircostates remained independent because the their rulers had a motive to be independent so they could preserve there power and wealth. The average citizen of a tiny republic doesn't have much to gain by remaining independent. Yet somehow was able to avoid getting taken over during the unification of Italy, Italian imperialism and the reign of Mussolini
The Pope isn't 'king' he's the sovereign.
So? Kings are sovereigns.
Is that you in the video opening the suitcase? Hunkarama!
Strangest countries for me:
Vatican, Andorra, Bhutan, both Koreas (they don't recognize each other), Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, USA (because US Minor Outlying Islands), San Marino, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein (what the hell hard word to write, IT IS ANNOYING), SADR (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)
Stfu Luxembourg is an awesome AMAZING country it is totally not wierd...
I don't care about the others on your list.
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the problem is because it basically has no reason to exist, just like Belgium, San Marino and Liechtenstein.
Note: ''strange'' don't mean that I hate the country
You can I can even see city from space, but still you can not see Vatican city even though it's name is city and enclaved in a city lol
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1:40 cities skylines? I see you a are a man of culture as well
When Benedict XVI was Pope, gay people were subject to intense discrimination over there
I agree with some below, it clearly has to be Belgium.
The order of Malta is the weirdest country in my opinion
My school is bigger than the Vatican
Not a State. Read Lottieri's paper "Vatican as a free society"
Deus Vult KhAnubis!
Excuse me, though the most strange country in the world is, with absolutely no doubt, the principality of Sealand.