The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a landlocked country with an area of 2,586 square kilometers and a population of 602,000 (as of January 2018), the capital city of Luxembourg, is 97% Catholic, and the official languages are Luxembourgish, German and French. Religiously, Luxembourg is a little more influenced by France and is a southern Germanic Catholic country that speaks Different religions from Germans. It is the only remaining Grand Duchy on the European continent, located in northwestern Europe, bordering Germany to the east, France to the south, and Belgium to the west and north. Due to its varied topography, Luxembourg has historically been on the Main German-French Route, with a dangerous terrain, and has always been an important military fortress in Western Europe, with the title of Gibraltar in the North.
Luxembourg was unified in 963 AD. From the 15th to the 18th centuries, it experienced the rule of Spain, France and Austria, and became a Grand Duchy in 1815. It became a neutral country in 1867 and renounced it in 1948.
Luxembourg is a highly developed capitalist country and the richest country in the world, one of the founding members of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with several subordinate institutions of the European Union, such as the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank, known as the "third capital" of the EUROPEAN Union after Brussels and Strasbourg. It is also a highly developed industrial country, the most important private banking center in the eurozone, and the second largest investment trust center in the world after the United States. Luxembourg is the country with the highest per capita income and living standard in the European Union, with a per capita GDP ranking among the top in the world, a highly developed economy, and steel, finance, radio and television are its three pillar industries of economy. Because of its small land and many ancient castles, it is also called "Pocket Kingdom" and "Country of a Thousand Castles". Seven-tenths of the country is covered by forests, green everywhere, fresh air, and a veritable "forest country". The most famous scenery of Lu is the birthplace of Lu - the Grand Canyon.
The steel industry is world-famous, and in 2001, the Lu steel giant Albert Steel Company (founded in 1882) merged with northern France and Aserraria, Spain, to form the steel giant Assellor Group. In July 2006, Aselore merged with Mittal, the world's number one steel giant, to form the Aselore Mittal Group. It is the largest enterprise in The Country and the largest steel group in the world, headquartered in Luxembourg City. The territory is rich in iron ore resources, mainly distributed in the "laterite area" of the Southern Gutland Plain, with high iron content and brownish red soil, so it is called "Laterite Country". With proven iron ore reserves of 270 million tonnes, Luxembourg is the most important mineral resource.
