Country · VA

Vatican City and the Holy See in other languages: Italian, Latin names

Vatican City is Città del Vaticano in Italian and Civitas Vaticana in Latin; ISO 3166-1 lists it as the Holy See, with the codes VA, VAT and 336. The page gives Vatican City in 152 languages and variants, the short form Vatican in 167 and the Holy See in 72.

Official languagesItalian for the laws of the state; Latin as the official language of the Holy See

Checked 5 November 2026

ISO 3166-1alpha-2 · alpha-3 · numeric

ratio 1:1

alpha-2: VA
alpha-3: VAT
numeric: 336

Città del Vaticano Italian · Latin

Stato della Città del Vaticano

Civitas Vaticana Latin · Latin

Status Civitatis Vaticanae

English: Vatican CityVatican City State
Capital: Città del VaticanoCittà del Vaticano · Vatican City (city-state)

ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026; ISO lists the entry under the name Holy See. Native names and language status: Wikipedia's Vatican City, citing the Law on the Sources of Law of 7 June 1929, checked 28 October 2026. Flag after the Wikimedia Commons drawing.

01 · Vatican City

Vatican City in other languages: list of exonyms

Vatican City in 152 languages and variants, grouped where the spelling is shared, with ISO 639-3 codes and romanisation
Languages	ISO 639-3	Name	Romanised
English	eng	Vatican City	same as written
Danish, Norwegian	dan / nor	Vatikanbyen	same as written
German, Low German	deu / nds	Vatikanstadt	same as written
Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian	dsb / hsb	Vatikanske město	same as written
Galician, Portuguese	glg / por	Cidade do Vaticano	same as written
Limburgish, Dutch	lim / nld	Vaticaanstad	same as written
Afrikaans	afr	Vatikaanstad	same as written
Aragonese	arg	Ciudat d’o Vaticano	same as written
Asturian	ast	Ciudá del Vaticanu	same as written
Azerbaijani	aze	Vatikan şəhəri / Ватикан шәһәри	Vatikan şəhəri
Bislama	bis	Vatican Siti	same as written
Bosnian	bos	Vatikanski Grad / Ватикански Град / واتٖىقانسقٖى غراد	Vatikanski Grad
Breton	bre	Keoded ar Vatikan	same as written
Catalan	cat	Ciutat del Vaticà	same as written
Czech	ces	Město Vatikán	same as written
Cornish	cor	Cita an Vatikan	same as written
Corsican	cos	Cità di u Vaticanu	same as written
Crimean Tatar	crh	Vatikan şeeri / Ватикан шеэри	Vatikan şeeri
Welsh	cym	Dinas y Fatican	same as written
Esperanto	epo	Vatikanurbo	same as written
Estonian	est	Vatikani Linn	same as written
Basque	eus	Vatikano Hiria	same as written
Extremaduran	ext	Ciá del Vaticanu	same as written
Faroese	fao	Vatikan býur	same as written
Finnish	fin	Vatikaanikaupunki	same as written
Kven	fkv	Vatikaanin staatti	same as written
French	fra	Cité du Vatican	same as written
Franco-Provençal	frp	Citâ du Vatican	same as written
West Frisian	fry	Fatikaanstêd	same as written
Friulian	fur	Citât dal Vatican	same as written
Scottish Gaelic	gla	Cathair na Bhatacain	same as written
Irish	gle	Cathair na Vatacáine	same as written
Manx	glv	Ard-valley yn Phaab	same as written
Guarani	grn	Táva Vatikano	same as written
Haitian Creole	hat	Site Vatikan	same as written
Croatian	hrv	Vatikanski Grad	same as written
Hungarian	hun	Vatikánváros	same as written
Interlingua	ina	Citate del Vaticano	same as written
Indonesian	ind	Kota Vatikan	same as written
Icelandic	isl	Vatikanborg	same as written
Italian	ita	Città del Vaticano	same as written
Javanese	jav	Kutha Vatikan	same as written
Kinyarwanda	kin	Umujyi wa Vatikani	same as written
Kurmanji Kurdish	kur	Bajara Vatîkanê	same as written
Latin	lat	Civitas Vaticana	same as written
Latvian	lav	Vatikāna pilsēta	same as written
Lithuanian	lit	Vatikano miestas	same as written
Latgalian	ltg	Vatikana mīsts	same as written
Luxembourgish	ltz	Vatikanstad	same as written
Maltese	mlt	Belt tal-Vatikan	same as written
Moldovan	mol	Cetățea Vaticanului / Четэця Ватиканулуй	Cetățea Vaticanului
Malay	msa	Kota Vatican / كوتا ۏاتيكن	Kota Vatican
Nahuatl	nah	Āltepētl in Vaticano	same as written
Navajo	nav	Bádikin Sídii	same as written
Novial	nov	Vatikan Urbe	same as written
Occitan	oci	Ciutat de Vatican	same as written
Papiamentu	pap	Siudad Vatikano	same as written
Polish	pol	Miasto Watykańskie	same as written
Quechua	que	Watikanu llaqta	same as written
Kalderash Romani	rmy	Vatikano Foro / वातिकानो फ़ोरो	Vatikano Foro
Romansh	roh	Citad dal Vatican	same as written
Romanian	ron	Cetățea Vaticanului	same as written
Aromanian	rup	Cãsãbã Vatican	same as written
Sicilian	scn	Cità dû Vaticanu	same as written
Scots	sco	Vatican Ceety	same as written
Slovak	slk	Mesto Vatikán	same as written
Slovio	slo	Vatikangrod / Ватикангрод	Vatikangrod
Slovenian	slv	Mesto Vatikan	same as written
Somali	som	Magaalada Fatikan	same as written
Spanish	spa	Ciudad del Vaticano	same as written
Albanian	sqi	Qyteti i Vatikanit	same as written
Sardinian	srd	Tzitade de su Vaticanu	same as written
Saterland Frisian	stq	Vatikanstääd	same as written
Swahili	swa	Mji wa Vatikano	same as written
Swedish	swe	Vatikanstaden	same as written
Silesian	szl	Watykańske Mjasto	same as written
Tetum	tet	Sidade-Vatikanu	same as written
Tagalog	tgl	Lungsod ng Batikano	same as written
Turkmen	tuk	Watikan şäheri / Ватикан шәхери	Watikan şäheri
Turkish	tur	Vatikan Şehri	same as written
Uzbek	uzb	Vatikan shahri / Ватикан шаҳри / ۋەتىكەن شەھرى	Vatikan shahri
Venetian	vec	Sità del Vatican	same as written
Vietnamese	vie	Thành Va-ti-căng	same as written
Võro	vor	Vatikani Liin	same as written
Zazaki	zza	Suka Vatikani	same as written
Komi-Permyak, Komi, Udmurt	koi / kom / udm	Ватикан кар	Vatikan kar
Meadow Mari, Hill Mari	mhr / mrj	Ватикан ола	Vatikan ola
Avar	ava	Ватикан шагьар	Watikan šahar
Bashkir	bak	Ватикан ҡалаһы / Vatikan ķalahı	Vatikan ķalahı
Belarusian	bel	Горад Ватыкан / Horad Vatykan	Horad Vatykan
Buryat	bua	Ватикан хото	Vatikan ȟoto
Bulgarian	bul	Ватикански град	Vatikanski grad
Chechen	che	Ватиканан шахьар / Vatikanan şaẋar	Vatikanan şaẋar
Chuvash	chv	Ватикан хули	Vatikan ȟuli
Kazakh	kaz	Ватикан қаласы / ۆاتيكان قالاسى / Vatïkan qalası	Vatïkan qalası
Kabardian	kbd	Ватикан къалэ	Vatikan qală
Kyrgyz	kir	Ватикан шаары / ۋاتىكان شاارى / Vatikan şaarı	Vatikan şaarı
Lezgi	lez	Сигьир Ватикан	Sihir Vatikan
Macedonian	mkd	Ватикански Град	Vatikanski Grad
Mongolian	mon	Ватикан хот	Vatikan ȟot
Ossetian	oss	Ватиканы сахар	Vatikany saȟar
Rusyn	rue	Місто Ватікан	Misto Vatikan
Russian	rus	Город Ватикан	Gorod Vatikan
Yakut	sah	Ватикан куората	Vatikan kuorata
Serbian	srp	Ватикански Град / Vatikanski Grad	Vatikanski Grad
Tatar	tat	Ватикан шәһәре / Vatikan şähäre / ۋاتىكان شەھەرې	Vatikan şähäre
Tajik	tgk	Шаҳри Вотикон / شهر واتیکان / Şahri Votikon	Şahri Votikon
Ukrainian	ukr	Місто Ватикан	Misto Vatykan
Kalmyk	xal	Ватикан балһсн	Vatikan balġsn
Arabic	ara	مدينة الفاتيكان	Madīnâẗu l-Fātīkān
South Azerbaijani	azb	واتیکان شهری / Vatikan şəhəri	Vatikan şəhəri
Sorani Kurdish	ckb	شاری ڤاتیکان / Şarî Vatîkan	Şarî Vatîkan
Persian	fas	شهر واتیکان / Šahre Vâtikân	Šahre Vâtikân
Pashto	pus	د واتيکان ښار	də Wātīkān ŝār
Uyghur	uig	ۋاتىكان شەھىرى / Watikan shehiri / Ватикан шәһири	Watikan shehiri
Urdu	urd	شہر ویٹیکن	Šahar-e Væṫīkan
Dhivehi	div	ވެޓިކަން ސިޓީ	Veṫikan Siṫī
Syriac	syr	ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܕܘܛܝܩܢ	Madī[n]tā da-Waṭīqan
Hebrew	heb	קרית הותיקן / קריית הוותיקן	Qiryat ha-Vatīqan
Ladino	lad	סיבﬞדאד דיל בﬞאטיקאנו / Sivdad del Vatikano	Sivdad del Vatikano
Yiddish	yid	װאַטיקאַן שטאָט	Vatikan Štot
Amharic	amh	ቫቲካን ከተማ	Vatikan kätäma
Greek (Demotic)	ell	Πόλη του Βατικανού	Pólī toy Vatikanoý
Greek (Katharevousa)	ell	Πόλης του Βατικανού	Pólīs toy Vatikanoý
Armenian	hye	Վատիկան քաղաք	Vatikan k̕aġak̕
Georgian	kat	ვატიკანის ქალაქი	Vatikanis ḳalaḳi
Hindi	hin	वैटिकन शहर, वैटिकन नगर	Væṭikan šahar, Væṭikan nagar
Marathi	mar	व्हॅटिकन सिटी	Whĕṭikan Siṭī
Nepali	nep	भेटिकन सिटी	Bʰeṭikan Siṭī
Bengali	ben	ভ্যাটিকান শহর, ভ্যাটিকান সিটি	Bʰæṭikān šôhôr, Bʰæṭikān Siṭi
Gujarati	guj	વેટિકન સિટી	Veṭikan Siṭī
Odia	ori	ଭାଟିକାନ ସିଟୀ	Bʰāṭikān Siṭī
Punjabi	pan	ਵੈਟਿਕਨ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ	Væṭikan šahir
Sinhala	sin	වතිකානු පුරය	Vatikānu puraya
Kannada	kan	ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್ ಸಿಟಿ, ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್ ನಗರ	Væṭikan Siṭi, Væṭikan nagara
Malayalam	mal	വത്തിക്കാൻ നഗരം	Vattikkān nagaraṃ
Tamil	tam	வத்திக்கான் நகர், வாட்டிகன் நகர்	Vattikkāṉ nakar, Vāṭṭikaṉ nakar
Telugu	tel	వాటికన్ నగరం	Vāṭikan nagaraṃ
Chinese	zho	梵蒂岡市/梵蒂冈市	Fàndìgāng shì
Japanese	jpn	バチカン市, ヴァチカン市	Bachikan shi, Vachikan shi
Korean	kor	바티칸시	Batikan si
Tibetan	bod	ཝ་ཏི་ཀན་གྲོང་ཁྱོར།	Wa.ti.kan. groṅ.kʰyor
Thai	tha	นครวาติกัน	Nakʰon Wātikân
Khmer	khm	វ៉ាទីកានស៊ិតធី	Vātīkān Sittʰī

Most languages translate the word city: Città del Vaticano, Cité du Vatican, Vatikanstadt, Город Ватикан (Gorod Vatikan), مدينة الفاتيكان (Madīnâẗu l-Fātīkān), 梵蒂冈市 (Fàndìgāng shì). Greek lists the nominative and the genitive form.

02 · NamesU+0056 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V

Vatican City, the Vatican and the Holy See

Two names stand for one place. Vatican City, Città del Vaticano in Italian and Civitas Vaticana in Latin, is the city-state; its full form is Stato della Città del Vaticano, Status Civitatis Vaticanae. The Holy See, Santa Sede or Sancta Sedes, is the authority of the Pope that governs it and that maintains diplomatic relations. ISO 3166-1 files the codes VA, VAT and 336 under Holy See.

The name Vatican City was first used in the Lateran Treaty, signed on 11 February 1929, which set up the state on Vatican Hill inside Rome. Vatican goes back further, to an Etruscan settlement called Vatica or Vaticum in the area the Romans knew as Ager Vaticanus, the Vatican territory.

The exonyms keep that Latin stem nearly everywhere: Vaticano in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, Vatikan in Danish, Norwegian, Croatian and Slovene, Ватикан in Cyrillic, 梵蒂冈 (Fàndìgāng) in Chinese and バチカン (Bachikan) in Japanese. The three tables give the city, the short form and the Holy See separately, because many languages use different words for each.

03 · Vatican

The Vatican in other languages

the Vatican in 167 languages and variants, grouped where the spelling is shared, with ISO 639-3 codes and romanisation
Languages	ISO 639-3	Name	Romanised
English, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Jersey Norman French, Ladin, Occitan, Romansh, Romanian, Aromanian, Walloon	eng / fra / frp / fur / jnf / lld / oci / roh / ron / rup / wln	Vatican	same as written
Breton, Cornish, Danish, Lower Sorbian, Estonian, Faroese, Haitian Creole, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Indonesian, Javanese, Maltese, Norwegian, Novial, Slovenian, Saterland Frisian, Turkish, Veps, Võro, Zazaki, German, Luxembourgish, Low German	bre / cor / dan / dsb / est / fao / hat / hrv / hsb / ind / jav / mlt / nor / nov / slv / stq / tur / vep / vor / zza / deu / ltz / nds	Vatikan	same as written
Asturian, Galician, Interlingua, Italian, Nahuatl, Portuguese, Spanish, Sardinian	ast / glg / ina / ita / nah / por / spa / srd	Vaticano	same as written
Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Slovio	aze / bos / crh / gag / kaa / slo	Vatikan / Ватикан	Vatikan
Esperanto, Basque, Papiamentu, Swahili	epo / eus / pap / swa	Vatikano	same as written
Czech, Hungarian, Slovak	ces / hun / slk	Vatikán	same as written
Aymara, Tetum	aym / tet	Vatikanu	same as written
Bambara, Kashubian	bam / csb	Watikan	same as written
Greenlandic, Albanian	kal / sqi	Vatikani	same as written
Kinyarwanda, Kirundi	kin / run	Vatica	same as written
Limburgish, Dutch	lim / nld	Vaticaan	same as written
Malagasy, Samoan	mlg / smo	Vatikana	same as written
Afrikaans	afr	Vatikaan	same as written
Aragonese	arg	Baticano	same as written
Catalan	cat	Vaticà	same as written
Welsh	cym	Y Fatican	same as written
Finnish	fin	Vatikaani	same as written
West Frisian	fry	Fatikaan	same as written
Scottish Gaelic	gla	An Bhatacain	same as written
Irish	gle	An Vatacáin	same as written
Manx	glv	Ard-Valley yn Phaab	same as written
Icelandic	isl	Vatíkanið	same as written
Kurmanji Kurdish	kur	Vatîkan / ڤاتیکان	Vatîkan
Latin	lat	Vaticanum	same as written
Latvian	lav	Vatikāns	same as written
Lingala	lin	Vatikáni	same as written
Lithuanian	lit	Vatikanas	same as written
Latgalian, Samogitian	ltg / smg	Vatikans	same as written
Moldovan	mol	Vatican / Ватикан	Vatican
Malay	msa	Vatican / ۏاتيكان	Vatican
Norman French	nrm	Vaticaun	same as written
Polish	pol	Watykan	same as written
Quechua	que	Watikanu	same as written
Kalderash Romani	rmy	Vatikan / वातिकान	Vatikan
Sicilian	scn	Vaticanu	same as written
Northern Sami	sme	Vatikána	same as written
Somali	som	Faatikaan	same as written
Swedish	swe	Vatikanen	same as written
Silesian	szl	Watykon	same as written
Turkmen	tuk	Watikan / Ватикан	Watikan
Uzbek	uzb	Vatikan / Ватикан / ۋەتىكەن	Vatikan
Vietnamese	vie	Va-ti-căng	same as written
Volapük	vol	Vatikän	same as written
Wolof	wol	Watikaa	same as written
Old Church Slavonic	chu	Ватиканъ	Vatikanŭ
Abaza, Altai, Bulgarian, Chuvash, Kabardian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Meadow Mari, Macedonian, Mongolian, Ossetian, Russian, Yakut, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk	abq / alt / bul / chv / kbd / kjh / kom / krc / kum / mhr / mkd / mon / oss / rus / sah / tyv / udm / xal	Ватикан	Vatikan
Bashkir, Chechen, Serbian, Tatar	bak / che / srp / tat	Ватикан / Vatikan	Vatikan
Belarusian	bel	Ватыкан / Vatykan	Vatykan
Kazakh	kaz	Ватикан / ۆاتيكان / Vatïkan	Vatïkan
Kyrgyz	kir	Ватикан / ۋاتئكان / Vatikan	Vatikan
Kurdish (Caucasus)	kmr	Ватикан / Vatîkan / ڤاتیکان	Vatîkan
Tajik	tgk	Вотикон / واتیکان / Votikon	Votikon
Ukrainian	ukr	Ватикан	Vatykan
Arabic	ara	الفاتيكان, الفاتكان, الفتيكان, الفتكان	al-Fātīkān, al-Fātikān, al-Fatīkān, al-Fatikān
South Azerbaijani	azb	واتیکان / Vatikan	Vatikan
Sorani Kurdish	ckb	ڤاتیکان / Vatîkan	Vatîkan
Persian	fas	واتیکان / Vâtikân	Vâtikân
Western Punjabi, Urdu	pnb / urd	ویٹیکن	Væṫīkan
Dari	prs	واتیکان	Vātīkān
Pashto	pus	واتيکان	Wātīkān
Uyghur	uig	ۋاتىكان / Watikan / Ватикан	Watikan
Dhivehi	div	ވެޓިކަން	Veṫikan
Syriac	syr	ܦܬܝܟܢ, ܒܬܝܟܢ	Patīkan, Batīkan
Hebrew	heb	וטיקן / ווטיקן, ותיקן / וותיקן	Vaṭîqan, Vatîqan
Ladino	lad	ב'אטיקאנו / Vatikano	Vatikano
Yiddish	yid	װאַטיקאַן	Vatikan
Greek (Demotic)	ell	Βατικανό	Vatikanó
Greek (Katharevousa)	ell	Βατικανόν	Vatikanón
Armenian	hye	Վատիկան	Vatikan
Georgian, Laz	kat / lzz	ვატიკანი	Vatikani
Mingrelian	xmf	ვატიკან	Vatikan
Hindi	hin	वैटिकन, वेटिकन	Væṭikan, Veṭikan
Nepali	nep	भेटिकन	Bʰeṭikan
Bengali	ben	ভ্যাটিকান	Bʰæṭikān
Gujarati	guj	વેટિકન	Veṭikan
Odia	ori	ଭାଟିକାନ	Bʰāṭikān
Punjabi	pan	ਵਾਟੀਕਾਨ	Vāṭīkān
Sinhala	sin	වතිකානය	Vatikānaya
Kannada	kan	ವ್ಯಾಟಿಕನ್	Væṭikan
Malayalam	mal	വത്തിക്കാന്	Vattikkān
Tamil	tam	வத்திக்கான், வாடிகன்	Vattikkāṉ, Vāṭikaṉ
Telugu	tel	వాటికన్	Vāṭikan
Chinese	zho	梵蒂岡/梵蒂冈	Fàndìgāng
Japanese	jpn	ヴァチカン, バチカン	Vachikan, Bachikan
Korean	kor	바티칸	Batikan
Tibetan	bod	ཝ་ཏི་ཀན།	Wa.ti.kan
Burmese	mya	ဗာတီကန်	Batikã
Thai	tha	วาติกัน	Wātikân
Khmer	khm	បូរីវ៉ាទីកង់, វ៉ាទីកង់	Vātīkăṅ, Vātīkăṅ

The short form without the word city. Polish writes Watykan, Latin Vaticanum, and Arabic gives four spellings of الفاتيكان (al-Fātīkān).

04 · Holy See

The Holy See in other languages

the Holy See in 72 languages and variants, grouped where the spelling is shared, with ISO 639-3 codes and romanisation
Languages	ISO 639-3	Name	Romanised
English	eng	Holy See	same as written
Asturian, Italian, Maltese, Spanish	ast / ita / mlt / spa	Santa Sede	same as written
Afrikaans, Dutch	afr / nld	Heilige Stoel	same as written
Aragonese, Catalan	arg / cat	Santa Seu	same as written
Galician, Portuguese	glg / por	Santa Sé	same as written
Bosnian	bos	Sveta Stolica / Света Столица / سوەتا ستۉلٖىڄا	Sveta Stolica
Breton	bre	Sez Santel	same as written
Czech	ces	Svatý Stolec	same as written
Kashubian	csb	Swiętô Stolëca	same as written
Welsh	cym	Babaeth	same as written
Danish	dan	Den Hellige Stol	same as written
German	deu	Heiliger Stuhl	same as written
Esperanto	epo	Sankta Seĝo	same as written
Estonian	est	Püha Tool, Püha Aujärg	same as written
Basque	eus	Egoitza Santua, Aulki Santua	same as written
Finnish	fin	Pyhä Istuin	same as written
French	fra	Saint-Siège	same as written
West Frisian	fry	Hillige Sit	same as written
Scottish Gaelic	gla	An Sealladh Naomh	same as written
Irish	gle	An Chathaoir Naofa	same as written
Croatian	hrv	Sveta Stolica	same as written
Hungarian	hun	Szentszék	same as written
Interlingua	ina	Sancte Sede	same as written
Indonesian	ind	Tahta Suci	same as written
Icelandic	isl	Páfastóll	same as written
Latin	lat	Sancta Sedes	same as written
Latvian	lav	Svētais Krēsls	same as written
Lithuanian	lit	Šventasis Sostas	same as written
Luxembourgish	ltz	Hellege Stull	same as written
Moldovan	mol	Sfântul Scaun / Сфынтул Скаун	Sfântul Scaun
Maori	mri	Te Parihi Tapu	same as written
Malay	msa	Takhta Suci / تختا سوچي	Takhta Suci
Norwegian Nynorsk	nno	Den heilage stolen	same as written
Norwegian Bokmål	nob	Den hellige stol	same as written
Occitan	oci	Santa Ses	same as written
Polish	pol	Stolica Święta	same as written
Romanian	ron	Sfântul Scaun	same as written
Slovak	slk	Svätá Stolica	same as written
Slovenian	slv	Sveti sedež, Sveta stolica	same as written
Northern Sami	sme	Bassi stuollu	same as written
Samogitian	smg	Švėntoujo Suosto	same as written
Albanian	sqi	Selisë së Shenjtë	same as written
Swahili	swa	Ukulu mtakatifu, Ukulu wa Kitume	same as written
Swedish	swe	Heliga Stolen	same as written
Turkish	tur	Papalık makamı	same as written
Vietnamese	vie	Tòa Thánh	same as written
Bashkir	bak	Изге Тәхет / İzge Täxet	İzge Täxet
Belarusian	bel	Святы Прастол / Sviaty Prastoł, Сьвяты Прэстол / Śviaty Prestoł	Sviaty Prastoł, Śviaty Prestoł
Bulgarian	bul	Свети Престол	Sveti Prestol
Chuvash	chv	Таса Астул	Tasa Astul
Russian	rus	Святой Престол	Svjatoj Prestol
Yakut	sah	Сибэтиэй Бүрүстүөл	Sibätiäj Bürüstüöl
Serbian	srp	Света Столица / Sveta Stolica	Sveta Stolica
Tatar	tat	Изге Тәхет / İzge Täxet / ئىزگې تەحېت	İzge Täxet
Ukrainian	ukr	Святий Престол	Svjatyj Prestol
Arabic	ara	الكرسي الرسولي, الكرسي البابوي	al-Kursīyu r-Rasūlī, al-Kursīyu l-Bābawī
Persian	fas	مقر پاپ / Maqarre Pâp	Maqarre Pâp
Hebrew	heb	הכס הקדוש	ha-Kes ha-Qadōš
Ladino	lad	סאנטה סידי / Santa Sede	Santa Sede
Greek (Demotic)	ell	Αγία Έδρα	Agía Édra
Greek (Katharevousa)	ell	Ἁγία Ἕδρα	Hagía Hédra
Georgian	kat	წმინდა საყდარი	Cminda Saqdari
Chinese	zho	聖座/圣座	Shèng Zuò
Japanese	jpn	聖座	Seiza
Korean	kor	성좌	Seong Jwa
Thai	tha	สังฆมณฑลศักดิ์สิทธิ์	Sâṅkʰa Montʰon Sâk[di]sit[tʰi]

The Holy See is the see of the Pope as bishop of Rome, a translation of Latin Sancta Sedes in nearly every language: Santa Sede, Saint-Siège, Heiliger Stuhl, Святой Престол (Svjatoj Prestol).

05 · ISO codes

Vatican City in ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-1 lists the state under the name Holy See with three codes. Its part of ISO 3166-2 contains no subdivisions, since the city-state is not divided.

Holy See, ISO 3166-1 VA, VAT, 336; ISO 3166-2:VA without subdivisions
ISO 3166-2	Italian	Latin	English	Administrative centre	Change
ISO 3166-1 entry1
VA	Stato della Città del Vaticano	Status Civitatis Vaticanae	Holy See		ISO 3166-2:VA defines no subdivision codes

ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2:VA on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, as reproduced in Wikipedia's ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2:VA, checked 28 October 2026.

06 · Languages

Italian and Latin

The laws of the state are published in Italian, the working language of its administration. Latin is the official language of the Holy See, so each of the three names also has a Latin form: Civitas Vaticana, Vaticanum and Sancta Sedes.

The state has no first-level subdivisions, and ISO 3166-2:VA lists none.

07 · Questions

Questions about the names of Vatican City and the Holy See

Is the Holy See the same as Vatican City?

No. Vatican City is the territory; the Holy See is the papal authority that governs it. ISO 3166-1 lists the codes under the name Holy See.

What is Vatican City called in Latin?

Civitas Vaticana, officially Status Civitatis Vaticanae. The Holy See is Sancta Sedes.

What are the ISO codes of Vatican City?

VA (alpha-2), VAT (alpha-3) and 336 (numeric).