Vatican City

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Transport and communications

The Vatican City has no airports. There is one heliport and a 852 m standard gauge (1435 mm) railway that connects to Italy's network at Rome's Saint Peter's station. The railway is used only to transport freight.

Related Topics:
Heliport - Standard gauge

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A newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, publishes daily in Italian, weekly in English, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese, and monthly in Polish.

Related Topics:
L'Osservatore Romano - Italian - English - Spanish - French - German - Portuguese - Polish

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The City is served by an independent, modern telephone system and post office. A bit of conventional wisdom in Rome is that international mail dropped in a mailbox in the Vatican will reach its destination more quickly than one dropped only a few hundred metres away in an Italian mailbox. The Vatican (which has its own country code, .va) has an official website, radio station, and satellite TV channels.

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