Luxembourg Country Info - Europe

Description and Basic Information

Luxembourg with its capital Luxembourg is located in Europe (Western Europe, between France and Germany). It covers some 2,587 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Rhode Island) with 486,000 citizens. Letzeburgesch, German and French are the official languages spoken in Luxembourg (consider regional differences). Germany, Belgium and France are bordering countries.

Luxembourg is a landlocked country in the Benelux bordered by Belgium, France and Germany, lying at the crossroad of Germanic and Latin cultures. In autumn, many villages along the Moselle river organise wine-tasting village festivals. The streets and landscape in Luxembourg make for good biking territory; highly recommended. Be wary, though, of small-ish bicycle repair shops in rural corners of the country -- they may quite well charge you quite some money for fixing your bike when they actually break it, more or less subtly.

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About Luxembourg

The topography featuresmostly gently rolling uplands with broad, shallow valleys with uplands to slightly mountainous in the north and steep slope down to Moselle flood plain in the southeast. The average density of population is about 187 per km². The climate in Luxembourg can be described as modified continental with mild winters, cool summers. Potential natural disasters are NA.

To reach someone in Luxembourg dial +352 prior to a number. There are 273,600 installed telephones. And there are 719,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 MHz and 3G. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".lu". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 3 regions/states in Luxembourg we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Luxembourg population grew at a rate of 1.16% (or by 5,761 citizens). With 4,209 deaths and 5,821 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 0.32%. 4,149 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Luxembourg: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.