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Luxembourg (/ ˈ l ʌ k s əm b ɜːr ɡ / ⓘ, LUK-səm-burg; [9] Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg [ˈlətsəbuəɕ] ⓘ; German: Luxemburg [ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ⓘ; French: Luxembourg [lyksɑ̃buʁ] ⓘ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, [a] is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany ...
Luxembourg – small sovereign country located in Western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. [1] Luxembourg has a population of half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (999 sq mi). [2] Luxembourg is a parliamentary representative democracy with a constitutional monarchy, ruled by a Grand Duke.
The Low Countries as seen from NASA space satellite. The Low Countries (Dutch: de Lage Landen; French: les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the ...
Towns and rivers in Luxembourg. Luxembourg is a small country located in the Low Countries, part of North-West Europe. It borders Belgium for 148 kilometres (92 miles) to the west and north, France (73 km [45 mi]) to the south, and Germany (138 km [86 mi]) to the east. Luxembourg is landlocked, separated from the North Sea by Belgium.
In 1839, after William I, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, agreed to the terms of the partition and the province was given to the newly created Kingdom of Belgium. An unofficial flag of the province exists, with the current colours of Luxembourg (red, white, and blue), as well as the province's coat of arms on the foreground.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
The border between the modern states of Belgium and Germany has a length of 136 km (85 mi). [6] [a] The border runs between the Belgian region of Liege and the German regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It runs from the Germany-Belgium-Luxembourg tripoint to the Germany-Belgium-Netherlands tripoint.
Relief map of Belgium. Belgium shares borders with France (620 km), Germany (162/167 km), Luxembourg (148 km), and the Netherlands (450 km). Its total surface, including water area, is 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi). [4] Before 2018, its total area was believed to be 30,528 km 2 (11,787 sq mi). However, when the country's statistics were measured ...