18 interesting facts about Luxembourg

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg — dwarf state in the heart of Europe. However, it can only be called dwarf in comparison with most other countries, because other dwarf European countries, such as Liechtenstein or San Marino, are an order of magnitude smaller than Luxembourg in area.

Interesting facts about Luxembourg

1. The area of ​​Luxembourg is 2,586.4 km. At the same time, less than six hundred thousand people live in Luxembourg.
2. Luxembourgish became an official language only in 1984. In general, here the majority of the population also speaks either French or German. German is the most popular.
3. The first people on the territory of modern Luxembourg appeared about 37 thousand years ago, as evidenced by archaeological finds.
4. In Belgium there is a province of the same name — Luxembourg, so named because those lands were annexed to Belgium in the middle of the 19th century as a result of an uprising (interesting facts about Belgium).
5. Luxembourg, occupied by German troops, was part of the Third Reich from 1941 to 1944. The royal court, which refused to cooperate with the invaders, spent these years in exile.
6. Luxembourg — the only country in the world that is a duchy.
7. Mobile phones in this country are one and a half times more than people.
8. The Luxembourg franc was withdrawn from circulation and replaced by the euro in 2002 (interesting facts about money).
9. The minimum wage in Luxembourg is more than two thousand euros per month.
10. About a third of the entire territory of the Duchy is occupied by forests.
11. The word «Luxembourg» in one of the German dialects it simply means «small town».
12. Currently, one of the problems of the duchy — very large external debt of the country.
13. Almost ten percent of the entire budget of Luxembourg is provided by metallurgical production.
14. Own transport in this country is very popular, despite its compact size — more than a quarter of a million private cars are registered here.
15. During the Middle Ages, the territory of Luxembourg was reduced by a factor of three, to the size that we see today (interesting facts about the Middle Ages).
16. All public saunas in the duchy they do not have separate male and female halls, as in Austria (interesting facts about Austria).
17. The city of Luxembourg itself — it is the city with the largest number of bank branches in the world.
18. The self-name of the inhabitants of this country — flyboy.