Luxembourg

Belgium's tiny neighbor

Luxembourg is a small, wealthy country in Western Europe, landlocked between Belgium, France, and Germany.

Also its capital city, sharing the name.

The country is known for its banking sector, as headquarters for several European Union institutions, and as one of the world's smallest sovereign nations: Luxembourg has three official languages.

finance

banking

Financial institution transactions

investment funds · Eurozone · tax haven · holding companies · fintech · securities · compliance · regulation · capital markets · custody

historic

fortress

Heavily defended military structure

Ardennes · WWII · Habsburg · Burgundian · Napoleonic Wars · independence · Charlemagne · Carolingian · Merovingian · liberation

country

landlocked

Having no sea access

Moselle · canton · arrondissement · tripoint · national day

multilingual

French

Of or from Paris's nation

code-switching · Francophone · Germanic · bilingual · lingua franca · official languages · multilingualism

wealthy

affluent

Having abundant financial resources

standard of living · expat · cosmopolitan · elite · luxury · financial hub · per capita · economic prosperity

European

founding member

Original establisher of organization

Strasbourg · member state · European Parliament

Categories
Opposites
size/scale

LuxembourgRussia

Eurasian federation, largest country

China · Canada · United States · Brazil · Australia

wealth/economic status

LuxembourgBurundi

Central African republic

Central African Republic · South Sudan · Malawi · Niger · Mozambique

geopolitical power/influence

LuxembourgUnited States

North American federal republic

China · superpower · Russia · great power · republic

Phrases
Family

Luxembourgish, Luxembourgers

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G