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Very Little Luxemburg by Yazmine Akamine. Learn about Luxemburg and why you should love it. Lovely land and climate. One of the smallest countries in Europe Landlocked by France, Germany, and Belgium 99.8 sq. miles ( It’s smaller than Rhode island)
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Very Little Luxemburgby Yazmine Akamine Learn about Luxemburg and why you should love it
Lovely land and climate • One of the smallest countries in Europe • Landlocked by France, Germany, and Belgium • 99.8 sq. miles ( It’s smaller than Rhode island) • Rolling hills, shallow valleys, and forest • North has highland and the south has very good farmland • 25% farming • Air and water pollution • Mild temperatures • Winter average 32 degrees* • Sumer average 75 degrees* • Their sunniest months are June and may • 32 in . Of average rainfall *= ferinhight
Crazy Culture !?!? • Sports aren't very important to them(basketball, soccer, and tennis) • They speak letebuergesch (Luxemburgish's) • They usually dress in high fashion items from Italy, France, Spain ,and Germany • They use there hands a lot yet they don’t use them to communicate • Chewing gum and talking is unacceptable • They never take seconds • Diet- smoked collar pork, beans, bean soup, soft cheese, plum tard, French fries ,and ham • Christmas time- black pudding ,fresh water fish, sausage, and sourtcrat • They are 87% roman catholic • Also Jewish and Muslim • They enjoy the arts • They are modern yet old • They are very smart and have good grades
Economics • Gdp growth rate .2% • Gdp per capita 80/700 • Industry .4% services 13.6% agriculture 8% • Managerial 2.2% sales 17.2% manufacturing 80.6% • Unemployment rate 4.8% • Poverty rate 0 • Inflation rate 2.6% • Industries banking, financial services, iron, steel, information on technology, food processing, technology, chemicals, tires, glass, aluminum, tourism • Exports 15.5 billion steel products, chemical, rubber products, glass • Export partners Germany 22.2% France 15.6% Belgium 13.2% UK 7.3% • Imports 25.08 billion minerals, metals, foodstuff, quality consumer goods • Belgium 30.3% Germany 26% France 10.8%
Luxemburg affects the u.s • Luxemburg as well as Iceland were selling their horse to the companies that later turned their horse into the meat in IKEA meat balls. The people of Luxemburg where unknowing where their meat had gone .
Pictures/ videos Prime minister Jean- Claude Junker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Iv4hje2rKo Skip 1:29-1:33 stop at 3:43
The End The rest will be read aloud