Vatican city.

The question asked about "churches".....not one church but "churches" in the plural. The Vatican has an area of 0.44 sq km which is 0.17 sq mile with one church St. Peter's Basilica. Jamaica has the most "churches" per square mile than any other country in the world. --------------- Religion is fundamental to Jamaican life, which can be seen in the references to Biblical events in everyday speech. The island has the highest number of "churches" per capita in the world and more than 100 different Christian denominations. Most Jamaicans are Christians; the largest denominations are the Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Brethren and Roman Catholics. ttp://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/jamaica.html http://www.btinternet.com/~pimento/ Edit - Grandma Roses - "you still provide no exact number of churches in Jamaica to back up your claim". This is the last edit. It's not about mathematical engineering and proving a position but rather the plural of "churches" per square mile. The Vatican has one church called St Peter's Basilica. The various chapels not listed publicly all connect to the basilica by interconnecting tunnels. Anyone can have a church but that doesn't mean it's listed as an official church. In this enclave of the city of Rome there is only one church. The question clearly asks, " What country has the most churches per square mile?" Having been to the Vatican and Jamaica several times there is no doubt which country has the most "churches" (plural) and so as not to mislead the reader the answer I gave was in keeping with the question of plural "churches". Jamaica has the most "churches" per square mile of any country in the world. Source-Guinness Book of World Records. Over 1,600 "churches" all over Jamaica. That number is growing. http://www.timessquarechurch.org/events/jamaica/jamaica_reports_day02.html Jamaica It's about the size of the U.S. State of Connecticut, and measures 4,400 square miles. It's 145 miles from east to west, and 20 and 50 miles from north to south. http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/caribb/jm.htm For the above do the math to know how many "churches" per square mile and remember the change is ongoing. Again, Vatican City has only one church, St Peter's Basilica which is Roman Catholic. If you cannot understand this answer please call the following NATIONAL LIBRARY OF JAMAICA 12 East Street, Kingston, Jamaica Telephone: [876] 967-1526, 967-2516, 967-2494, 967-2496

Holy Smoke! (Get it? The Vatican...Holy Smoke..?) My fifteenth edit and this is the last one. First, I believe Alatea is correct about Jamaica as "the " country. . Second, and for reasons below, I also believe this answer about Vatican City is ludicrous. Now, as for me, I'm ready to say, fine, you win, let's move along, LOL The day I persist in arguing about something that doesn't interest me, with two people, both of whom are smarter than I am, for no reason except to look like I'm right. and can't back down. ..is probably never going to happen. Hungry Guy, I appreciate the support, but we're all just expressing opinions. There was nothing personal in anything anyone else wrote. My gosh, compared to some of the stuff I hear on the phone sometimes when I'm running late, this stuff is positively peaceful, LOL Has anyone reading this ever been to Memphis? The place has over 100 million churches within the city limits, LOL. Now...let's see..where did I write that the US has more churches than anywhere else? Hmmm...nowhere. What I wrote was. "At one church to one square mile, Vatican City loses out in the density question to more places than I can name here. Some in the US, of course, and plenty of others everywhere else on the globe." What that means is that some places in the United States have more than just one church PSM. I can think of three towns that have four churches within a square BLOCK. And, this is hard to believe, but some places in the US have ZERO churches PSM. The middle of the Mohave Desert, for instance. The bottom of Lake Erie, for another. Never said the USA, as a whole, has more, did I? . It's ludicrous to compare Vatican City, that well-known country; to any country that fits the usual and accepted meaning of the word. If it had been my question - impossible. since the subject is about as interesting to me as a cabbage is to a box of Wheaties - maybe less - I'd have dinged it right away. I wonder if the questioner appreciated VC taking the place of useful data. If he/she was going to use the answer for a report on say, number of denominations vs. number of churches in a country, vs some other fascinating element, "1 and 1" sort of messes with others in the " 52 and 268" ballpark. Technically maybe VC is a country, but it's not exactly like any other. It's got one church, one religion, and the head of state is a pope - regarded as , well,...however he's regarded. No one in the US regards George Bush as deity in flesh. I hope. There are other differences, too. Just about all VC is a city. I bet it's civilized. How's that for different? I doubt atheism is a recognized element in VC. The US isn't stuck inside Rome, but then again, VC isn't stuck inside Iraq. The particular Anonymous who answered is known for his sardonic/sarcastic replies that, while clever and quick witted, may not be helpful. He likes to show a dry wit and will do so at the expense of good ratings. Maybe he was being witty here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please understand that one of the reasons I'm putting my two cents' worth in is not to take sides, or be critical, but because the "Vatican City" answer is wrong, and I got the feeling another war could be in the works. Not anything worth seeing again. Heck, I wasn't interested the first time. I found only one church in Vatican City, St. Peter's. As other answers and comments state, this church covers 0.17 miles, or 1/6th mile. . Unless more are located somewhere on the remaining 5/6ths, then St. Peter's church is the one and only church on that square mile. The question doesn't ask about potential or theoretical churches, and it's not some kind of percentage thing, either. And it's not asking for an average. At one church to one square mile, Vatican City loses out in the density question to more places than I can name here. Some in the US, of course, and plenty of others everywhere else on the globe. I know one block in Memphis with two churches on the west side of the street, and one big one on the east, right across from each other. That's three, in a smaller-than-a-square-mile area. Good enough for me, since I don't give a hoot in hades about it anyway, I found only one document anywhere that actually named a country as having more churches per square mile than any other country, and that was Jamaica. That's exactly what Alatea claims. Also good enough. Nobody else is producing anything that says anything else. Fair is fair, and that's exactly what I read. Exactly what she wrote, too. I can find it again, easily enough, for anyone who wants to see it. I'm leaving church now, bless all your hearts.

Re: "Question is simple, you provide difficulty" Looks simple to me: 1.0/0.2 = 5.0 churches/mile^2. I learned how to do this more years back than I care to mention. However, perhaps we should consider that the *question* is flawed. This question produces a bias in favour of smaller countries, such as Vatican City, regardless of the size of the population or hectares of living space. A statisticians will ask: "How many churches are there per 1,000 population?" This almost completely eliminates the bias inherent in the question as it stands. ------------------------------------------------------------ I see some interesting answers to this question, but undoubtably the Vatican City is the answer. Even if we count only St. Peter's Basilica, ignoring the smaller chapels, we end up with a count of one (1) church in an area of about 0.5 km^2 or 0.2 miles^2. This is equal to a density of 5 churches/mile^2. One individual stated that the question asked for churches, not church in the singular, and the Vatican is disqualified. The physical number of churches in the territory is irrelevant, since we have been asked to provide a count of items per unit area. The denominator in units of measure is *always* stated in the plural, for example miles/gallon, feet/mile, pecks/feet^3, rods/parsec, and so forth. If I drive one kilometre in a car and accurately measure the fuel consumption, I calculate a measure of N kilometres/litre, not N kilometre/litre. The distance is irrelevant, except in terms of accuracy. Hence, the answer that claimed the Vatican City has the highest density of churches per unit area is correct. Nor does it matter what type of ground the church is built on, since the area of a nation includes terrain that perople rarely live on, such as the side of a mountain. However, the area of the mountain is still included in the area of a country. Similarly, there are many outrageously damp regions in the world, whose area is included in national figures. The number of bushels of wheat per mile^2 produced in Canada is biased by the area of the Torngats, which has both a population and number of hectares of arable land equal to zero. Perhaps having only one church skews the numbers statistically, but it does not invalidate the answer.

Moldova OR Romania.

Vatican City covers a territory of 0.17 square miles. Vatican City is recognized as a soverign country by almost every other country in the world and even exchanges ambassadors with them. Saint Peter's Basilica is the only chruch in Vatican City although there are many chapels (like the Sistine Chapel). 1 church in .17 square miles is 5.9 chruches per square mile. With love in Christ.