Country Name:
Andorra
Capital:
Andorra la Vella
Continent:
Europe
Maps:
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| European continent. Andorra outlined in dark black and with an arrow pointing to it because it's so tiny. |
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| A closer look at Andorra & its neighbors. |
Neighbors:
France & Spain
Water Borders:
None
Total Area: (added March 2015)
180.55 square miles
Five Largest Cities:
Andorra la Vella, Escaldes-Engordany, Encamp, Sant Julia de Loria, La Massana
Famous Geographical Point:
Pyrenees Mountains, which make up the whole country.
Famous Person:
Juli Minoves Triquell, politician & author
Book Set In/About:
The Road to Andorra by Shirley Deane
The author's account of her travels in Andorra.
Movie Set In/About:
"Idiot Love (Amor Idiota)" (2004), directed by Ventura Pons
The tale of a man's obsession with a woman he's met by chance.
Headline of the Day:
"Andorra Draws Home Buyers Despite Tax Law" in The New York Times.
Note: When I typed "Andorra" into Google, no news items appeared. I then typed in "Andorra news" and this was the first article in the first link that I clicked. It is from August 2013.
2 comments:
Ah, good old Andorra. In elementary school, we had to write a report about a country and I chose Andorra, mostly because it was so small. You gotta love a country that has fewer people than the city in which I now live (or the city which I grew up, for that matter) and whose top ten cities by population, as listed on Wikepedia, end with #10 having about 1,000 people. Crazy Europe with it's crazy "countries."
I was actually grousing at Dan when I was typing out the top 5 city names, "Why are all their city names so long when the cities themselves are so tiny?" Including its suburbs, Andorra la Vella only has like 40K residents. Sheesh.
I also find it weird that, even though it's a separate country, it's co-ruled by two "princes," one from France and one from Spain. Reminds me of that Bible story about the mothers who want to split the baby.
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