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Since the Lateran Treaty in 1929 0.44 hectare or 109 acres has been given as the size of the Vatican. I see this article now has 0.49 or 121 acres and other sources have picked this up and are promulgating this seemingly false value. 2600:1007:B034:A4C7:F1CB:2CB:A780:9B5B (talk) 19:36, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you actually measure the area on a map it ends up somewhere between 49 and 50 ha depending on the source map and method (you'd need a local surveyor to get a really accurate number, but getting within 0.5 to 1 ha is doable)
Then later on User:Heitordp found sources and a plausible chain of events for the entire world getting it wrong. *Just* based on those sources I'm not sure I'd be convinced, but since those new sources actually agree with what you get with a simple measurement, the 44ha number is clearly not right.
I speculate that the 44ha number comes from mistakenly excluding St. Peter's Square, the size of which is about the difference between the two numbers, but I don't have evidence for that beyond "it seems plausible". FrankGevaerts (talk) 12:41, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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