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The sites described in this section provide general information and links to metasites/portals of Internet resources.
Flags of the World: Vatican City (Holy See) (http://flagspot.net/flags/va.html)
Overview of the Holy See and images of flags, including historical Vatican flags.
Governments on the WWW: Vatican (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/va.html)
Includes links to national institutions and political information.
Holy See (http://www.vatican.va/phome%5Fen.htm)
Official Vatican City Web site, with sections devoted to current news, the Vatican's secret archives, the Vatican Library, the saints, devotional questions, and much more. The site map provides an alphabetical list of links to more than 100 other topics including advent, encyclicals, mysteries of the rosary, and sacred music. Searchable. In multiple languages.
Holy See Press Office. The College of Cardinals: Statistics (http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_statistiche/
cardinali_aa_index_statistiche_en.html)
Statistics on the College of Cardinals, consistories, and more. In Italian, some English and other languages.
Open Directory Project. Regional: Europe: Vatican City (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Vatican_City/)
Links to a wide variety of web sites culled from major search engines. The number of sites is listed next to each category.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Holy See (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vt.html)
General information and statistics about the Holy See, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on Holy See.
World Flag Database: Vatican City (http://www.flags.net/VACY.htm)
Image of the Vatican flag.
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