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Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , is a sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula , in the eastern Pyrenees in Western 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 Roman Catholic Diocese of Urgell . The present principality was formed by a charter in 1278 . 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 , with an area of 468 square kilometres (181 sq mi) and a population of approximately 79,034.0 The Andorran people are a Romance ethnic group closely related to Catalans . Andorra is the world's 16th-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 official language is Catalan , but Spanish , Portuguese , and French are also commonly spoken.
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 United Nations since 1993. (Full article... )
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (French: [emanɥɛl makʁɔ̃] ; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. He previously was Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016 and deputy secretary-general to the president from 2012 to 2014. He has been a member of Renaissance since he founded it in 2016.
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 Inspectorate General of Finances and as an investment banker at Rothschild & Co . Appointed Élysée deputy secretary-general by President François Hollande shortly after his election in May 2012, Macron was one of Hollande's senior advisers. Appointed Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014 in the second Valls government , he led a number of business-friendly reforms. He resigned in August 2016, in order to launch his 2017 presidential campaign. A member of the Socialist Party from 2006 to 2009, he ran in the election under the banner of En Marche , a centrist and pro-European political movement he founded in April 2016.
Partly as a result of the Fillon affair which sank the Republican nominee François Fillon 's chances, Macron topped the ballot in the first round of voting, and was elected President of France on 7 May 2017 with 66.1% of the vote in the second round, defeating Marine Le Pen of the National Front . At the age of 39, he became the youngest president in French history. In the 2017 legislative election in June, his party, renamed La République En Marche! (LREM), secured a majority in the National Assembly . Macron was elected to a second term in the 2022 presidential election , again defeating Le Pen, thus becoming the first French presidential candidate to win reelection since Jacques Chirac defeated Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002 . His centrist coalition lost its absolute majority in the 2022 legislative election , resulting in a hung parliament and the formation of France's first minority government since the fall of the Bérégovoy government in 1993 . In early 2024, Macron appointed Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister, youngest head of government in French history and first openly gay man to hold the office, to replace Élisabeth Borne , the second female Prime Minister of France, after a major government crisis . Following crushing defeat at the 2024 European Parliament elections , Macron dissolved the National Assembly and called for a snap legislative election which resulted in another hung parliament and electoral defeat for his ruling coalition. It was only the third time in the French Republic's history that a president lost an election he called of his own initiative. 59 days after the election, Macron appointed Michel Barnier , a conservative political figure and former chief Brexit negotiator, as Prime Minister. (Full article... )
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The following are images from various Andorra-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 A 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 kilometres (1.2 miles) of the Andorran border. (from
Andorra )
Image 2 The embassy of Andorra in
Brussels (from
Andorra )
Image 3 Andorran flag on a balcony, Ordino (from
Andorra )
Image 5 Charlemagne instructing his son,
Louis the Pious (from
Andorra )
Image 6 View of
Andorra la Vella with mountains (from
Geography of Andorra )
Image 7 Andorra–La Seu d'Urgell Airport , located 12 kilometres (7 mi) away from Andorra, in
Montferrer i Castellbò (
Catalonia , Eastern Spain) (from
Andorra )
Image 8 Boris Skossyreff , briefly self-proclaimed King of Andorra in 1934 (from
Andorra )
Image 10 Andorra Telecom , the national telecom company in Andorra (from
Andorra )
Image 12 National Police patrolling the central area of the capital city (from
Andorra )
Image 13 Guillem d'Areny-Plandolit led the New Reform of 1866. (from
Andorra )
Image 14 RTVA , the public service television and radio broadcaster in Andorra (from
Andorra )
Image 15 Enthronement 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 16 Grandalla flower, the national symbol (from
Andorra )
Image 17 Co-Prince
Charles de Gaulle in the streets of Sant Julià de Lòria in Andorra, October 1967 (from
Andorra )
Image 19 Streets of the city centre of Andorra la Vella in 1986. From the same year until 1989 Andorra normalized the economic treaties with the
EEC .
Image 20 The centre of government in
Andorra la Vella (from
Andorra )
Image 21 Altar of Sant Romà de Vila (from
Andorra )
Image 22 Women's Folk costume (
Le val d'Andorre ) (from
Andorra )
Image 23 The town of
Encamp , as seen from the Vall dels Cortals (from
Andorra )
Image 25 Men's Folk costume (
Le val d'Andorre ) (from
Andorra )
Image 26 Casa de la Vall, the historical and ceremonial Andorran Parliament (from
Andorra )
Image 28 Enlargeable, detailed map of Andorra (from
Geography of Andorra )
Image 29 Foreign Minister of Andorra
Gilbert Saboya meeting Austrian foreign minister
Sebastian Kurz at the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2014 (from
Andorra )
Image 30 The
New Parliament of Andorra , headquarters of the
General Council since 2011, next to
Casa de la Vall (from
Andorra )
Image 31 Map of Andorra with its seven parishes labelled (from
Andorra )
Image 32 Roc de les Bruixes prehistorical sanctuary in
Canillo (detail) (from
Andorra )
Image 33 Topographic map of Andorra (from
Andorra )
Image 34 Manor 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 35 Population of Andorra by settlement in 2013 (from
List of cities and towns in Andorra )
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