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Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south and west. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg City, is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union and hosts several EU institutions, notably the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU.

As part of the Low Countries, Luxembourg has close historic, political, and cultural ties to Belgium and the Netherlands. Luxembourg's culture, people, and languages are greatly influenced by France and Germany: Luxembourgish, a Germanic language, is the only recognized national language of the Luxembourgish people and of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; French is the sole language for legislation; and both languages along with German are used for administrative matters.

With an area of 2,586 square kilometres (998 sq mi), Luxembourg is Europe's seventh-smallest country. In 2026, it had a population of 693,916, which makes it one of the least-populated countries in Europe, albeit with the highest population growth rate; foreign nationals account for almost half the population. Luxembourg is a representative democracy headed by a constitutional monarch, Grand Duke Guillaume V, making it the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy. (Full article...)

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The area where Luxembourgish (pale indigo) and other dialects of Moselle Franconian (medium indigo) are spoken. The internal isogloss for words meaning "on, at", i.e. op and of, is also shown (Standard German: auf).

Luxembourgish (/ˈlʌksəmbɜːrɡɪʃ/ LUK-səm-bur-ghish; also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; endonym: Lëtzebuergesch [ˈlətsəbu̯əjəʃ] ^ⓘ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.

The language is standardized and officially the national language of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. As such, Luxembourgish is different from the German language also used in the Grand Duchy. The German language exists in a national standard variety of Luxembourg, which is slightly different from the standard varieties in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Another important language of Luxembourg is French, which had a certain influence on both the national language, Luxembourgish, and the Luxembourg national variety of German. Luxembourgish, German and French are the three official languages (Amtssprachen) of Luxembourg. (Full article...)

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Image 1Nicolas Liez: View of Luxembourg from the Fetschenhof (1870) (from Culture of Luxembourg)
Image 2Luxembourg City History Museum (from Culture of Luxembourg)
Image 3Nico Klopp: Loop in the Moselle at Greiveldange with Stadtbredimus (1930) (from Culture of Luxembourg)
Image 4Claus Cito's Gëlle Fra topping the Monument of Remembrance (1923) (from Culture of Luxembourg)
Image 5Jean-Baptiste Fresez: Vianden near the Bridge (c. 1857) (from Culture of Luxembourg)
Image 6The labour productivity level of Luxembourg is one of the highest in Europe. OECD, 2012. (from Economy of Luxembourg)
Image 7Dominique Lang: Le Barrage (1913) (from Culture of Luxembourg)
Image 8Pierre Brandenbourg: Early photograph of Brasserie Clausen (1865) (from Culture of Luxembourg)
Image 9Luxembourg has been part of the eurozone since 1999. (from Economy of Luxembourg)
Image 10Jean Jacoby: Rugby (1928) (from Culture of Luxembourg)