r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Dec 25 '17

What do you know about... Luxembourg

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

Today's country:

Luxembourg

Luxembourg is a small state between Germany, France and Belgium. It has the highest GDP per capita in the EU and is amongst the highest in the world. It has a GDP larger than Bulgaria, which has more than ten times the population. Its former prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker is the current president of the European Commission. It has an own language called Luxembourgish which is a german dialect. German and French are official Languages.

So, what do you know about Luxembourg?

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u/Udzu United Kingdom Dec 27 '17

• The last remaining Grand Duchy in the world. • Borders a Belgian province with the same name and a bigger area. • Has more letters in Benelux than either Belgium or Netherlands. • Won Eurovision more than nearly everyone (five times or so?). • Claims two Nobel Prize winners, but both were French nationals. • Rosa Luxemburg wasn't born there, but sci-fi publisher Hugo Gernsback (he of the Hugo Awards) was.