Luxembourg

Nightfall draws crowds to the Place d'Armes, Luxembourg City's most vibrant square.

Luxembourg Ardennes, Luxembourg

Fast Facts

Population:

457,000

Capital:

Luxembourg; 77,000

Area:

2,586 square kilometers (998 square miles)

Language:

Luxembourgish, German, French

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Currency:

Euro

Life Expectancy:

78

GDP per Capita:

U.S. $48,900

Literacy Percent:

100

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Luxembourg, a landlocked Western European country, has heavily forested hills in the north and open, rolling countryside in the south. It became a member of a customs union in 1948 that evolved into today's European Union. Although small in size, Luxembourg's central location, political stability, and multilingual population, along with tax incentives, have proved advantageous to it as a financial center. Foreign investment in light manufacturing and services has offset the decline in steel, once the nation's major industry.
ECONOMY

• Industry: Banking, iron and steel, food processing, chemicals
• Agriculture: Barley, oats, potatoes, wheat; livestock products
• Exports: Machinery and equipment, steel products, chemicals, rubber products, glass

—Text From National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition