r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Jun 05 '17

What do you know about... Liechtenstein?

This is the twentieth part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Todays country:

Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein is the fourth smallest nation in Europe. It was the last European country to give women the right to vote, passed with 51.3% in a referendum in 1984 where only men were allowed to participate. It has no army. They use the CHF as currency.

So, what do you know about Liechtenstein?

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u/tobias_681 For a Europe of the Regions! 🇩🇰 Jun 06 '17

Lumping up Liechtenstein with Luxembourg due to both being small nations in the middle of Europe is a rather big mistake because Liechtenstein is in fact so small, it makes Luxembourg look big (it has 1/15 of Luxembourg's population which is about the same ratio as Luxembourg and Germany).

My city has almost 3x its population and my city is barely among the 100 largest German cities.