Do you really know western europe geography?

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  • one
    one

    Last night a met a beautifull blond young girl who works for her country at UN

    She could read and write too, in fact she HAD to write down on piece of paper the name of her country after i asked three times...

    Her country is Liechtenstein,

    at this website i could cofirm a few things she told me that surprised me..

    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ls.html#Intro

    only 34000 people live there.

    19000 workers travel daily back and forth from nearby countries

    Interesting facts (the girl too) Too bad she leaving for NYC today.

  • Simon
    Simon

    Andorra is another small principality.

    I think they survived initially because of their remoteness and laterley due to their tax free status.

  • Swan
    Swan
    Andorra is another small principality.

    And don't forget the Duchy of Grand Fenwick!

    Tammy

  • Country_Woman
    Country_Woman

    Swan, I agree - in the mouse that roared - is'nt it ?

  • Swan
    Swan

    Yes. Peter Sellers was brilliant!

  • one
    one

    I heard about Andorra but dont even remember the location, dont remember hearing about "Duchy of Grand Fenwick!"

    So many interesting countries, so little time.

    Santa did not bring me an 8 x12 world map to cover a wall as i requested..

  • Swan
    Swan

    We studied Liechtenstein, Andorra, and Monaco in school here in the states along with all of the other European countries.

    As for the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, I had to go to the movie theater to study that. It's a fictional small country created by author Leonard Wibberly as a satire of cold war diplomacy, and made popular by Peter Sellers in the first movie, "The Mouse That Roared."

    Tammy

  • Euphemism
    Euphemism

    One... Andorra is in the Pyrenees mountains, between Spain and France.

    Gran Fenwick is a fictional principality from the Peter Sellers comedy The Mouse That Roared, about a tiny European country that gets an atomic bomb.

    P.S. D'oh! Swan beat me to it.

  • one
    one

    Swan and eup

    No wonder, I never go to movies... and rarely buy a book, not even best sellers i only read WT literature

  • TresHappy
    TresHappy

    Remember the I Love Lucy episode when Lucy wanted Ricky to get some publicity so she posed as the daughter of famous royalty:

    the Mahrarincess of Franistan! Love that episode!

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