Vatican City Populated Places and Settlements from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas for Vatican City sourced from OpenStreetMap. The dataset includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land. It was exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Demographic analysis based on settlement and residential area locations.
• Settlement-level targeting for planning based on populated place data.
• Population analysis using the distribution of named cities, towns, and villages.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Explicitly includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
• Sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete according to the source.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-built collaborative mapping.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:07:07.524447; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Holy See (Vatican City State)