Portal:Andorra

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Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in southwestern Europe, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been created by Charlemagne, Andorra was ruled by the count of Urgell until 988, when it was transferred to the Diocese of Urgell. Andorra was formed as a polity by a charter in 1278, being a lordship within the Principality of Catalonia until 1715. It is currently headed by two co-princes: the Bishop of Urgell in Catalonia, Spain, and the president of France. Its capital and largest city is Andorra la Vella.

Andorra is the sixth-smallest state in Europe and the largest of the European microstates, with an area of 468 square kilometres (181 sq mi) and an estimated population of 90,021 as of July 2026. The Andorran people are a Romance group descended from the Catalans. Andorra is the world's 17th-smallest country by land and 11th-smallest by population. Its capital, Andorra la Vella, is the highest capital city in Europe, at an elevation of 1,023 metres (3,356 feet) above sea level. The sole official language is Catalan, while Spanish, Portuguese and French are also used.

Tourism in Andorra brings approximately 8 million visitors to the country annually. Andorra is not a member state of the European Union. It has been a member of the Council of Europe and of the United Nations since 1993. (Full article...)

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Macron in 2025

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. He has been a member of Renaissance since founding the party in 2016. Macron previously served as Deputy Secretary-General to the President from 2012 to 2014 and Minister of Economics and Finance from 2014 to 2016 under President François Hollande.

Born in Amiens, Macron studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre University. He completed a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po and graduated from the École nationale d'administration in 2004. He worked as a senior civil servant at the General Inspectorate of Finance and as an investment banker at Rothschild & Co. Macron was a senior adviser to President Hollande, being appointed as Élysée deputy secretary-general by Hollande after the 2012 presidential election. He was later appointed as Economics Minister in 2014 in the second Valls government, and led several business-friendly reforms. He resigned in 2016 to launch his 2017 presidential campaign. A member of the Socialist Party between 2006 and 2009, he ran in the election under the banner of En Marche, a centrist and pro-European political movement which he founded in 2016.

Partly due to the Fillon affair, Macron was elected president in May 2017 with 66% of the second-round vote, defeating Marine Le Pen of the National Front. Aged 39, he became the youngest president in French history. In the 2017 legislative election, his party, renamed La République En Marche! (LREM), secured a majority in the National Assembly. During his presidency, Macron has overseen reforms to labour laws, taxation, and pensions; and pursued a renewable energy transition. Dubbed "president of the rich" by opponents, increasing protests against his reforms culminated in 2018–2020 with the yellow vests protests and the pension reform strike. From 2020, he led France's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession, including by overseeing the country's vaccination rollout. In foreign policy, Macron called for reforms to the European Union (EU) and signed treaties with Germany and Italy. He conducted €40 billion in trade and business agreements with China during the China–United States trade war and oversaw a dispute with Australia and the US over the AUKUS security pact. Macron has also continued Opération Chammal in the war against the Islamic State and joined in the international condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Full article...)

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Did you know (auto-generated)

... that Spanish bishop Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat is expected to be a future head of state of Andorra?
... that around 400 people tried to flee from Francoist Spain to Andorra through Juberri in 1937?
... that in 1973 Carme Travesset became the first woman in Andorra to hold elected office?
... that Església de Sant Serni de Canillo has the tallest bell tower in Andorra?

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Flag of Andorra

The General Council of the Valleys, the parliament of Andorra, has only 28 members.

The Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley, a World Heritage Site, is considered to be the "spiritual heart" of Andorra.

Although it is not a member of the European Union, Andorra uses the euro.

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The following are images from various Andorra-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Map of Andorra (from List of cities and towns in Andorra)
Image 2Foreign Minister of Andorra Gilbert Saboya (on left) meeting Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz at the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2014 (from Andorra)
Image 3Manor house of the Rossell family in Ordino, Casa Rossell, built in 1611. The family also owned the largest ironwork forges in Andorra as Farga Rossell and Farga del Serrat. (from Andorra)
Image 4Andorran flag on a balcony, Ordino (from Andorra)
Image 5Population of Andorra by settlement in 2013 (from List of cities and towns in Andorra)
Image 6Pas de la Casa (from List of cities and towns in Andorra)
Image 7The embassy of Andorra in Brussels. (from Andorra)
Image 8Enthronement as Co-Prince in 1942 of Bishop Ramón Iglesias (centre). The local comite was led by Francesc Cairat (left), the First General Syndic with the longest regencie, from 1936 to 1960. (from Andorra)
Image 9Enlargeable, detailed map of Andorra (from Geography of Andorra)
Image 10A Police Corps of Andorra patrol car in Andorra la Vella (from Andorra)
Image 11A train at Latour-de-Carol (La Tor de Querol), one of the two stations serving Andorra. Andorra has no railways, although the line connecting Latour-de-Carol and Toulouse, which in turn connects to France's TGVs at Toulouse, runs within two km (one point two mi) of the Andorran border. (from Andorra)
Image 12alt=Portrait of Xavier Espot Zamora (from Andorra)
Image 13RTVA, the public service television and radio broadcaster in Andorra (from Andorra)
Image 14Co-Prince Charles de Gaulle in the streets of Sant Julià de Lòria in Andorra, October 1967 (from Andorra)
Image 15Streets of the city centre of Andorra la Vella in 1986. From 1986 until 1989 Andorra normalised the economic treaties with the EEC.
Image 16Laure Soulié, Olympic biathlete (from Andorra)
Image 17Boris Skossyreff, briefly self-proclaimed King of Andorra in 1934 (from Andorra)
Image 18Charlemagne instructing his son, Louis the Pious (from Andorra)
Image 19Encamp (from List of cities and towns in Andorra)
Image 20Andorra la Vella, Capital of Andorra (from List of cities and towns in Andorra)
Image 21Andorra Telecom, the national telecom company in Andorra (from Andorra)
Image 22Grandalla flower, the national symbol (from Andorra)
Image 23Most signage in Andorra is in Catalan (from Andorra)
Image 24The athletes from Andorra at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics (from Andorra)
Image 25Topographic map of Andorra. (from Andorra)
Image 26View of Andorra la Vella with mountains (from Geography of Andorra)
Image 27Guillem d'Areny-Plandolit led the New Reform of 1866. (from Andorra)
Image 28Roc de les Bruixes prehistorical sanctuary in Canillo (detail) (from Andorra)
Image 29Andorra–La Seu d'Urgell Airport, located 12 km (7 mi) away from Andorra, in Montferrer i Castellbò (Catalonia, Eastern Spain) (from Andorra)
Image 30The town of Encamp, as seen from the Vall dels Cortals (from Andorra)

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The town of Encamp as seen from the Vall dels Cortals

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