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Trees at Birtrange Castle in Luxembourg. Luxembourg's flora is characterized by the country's location at the border between the Atlantic-European and Central-European climate zones. In the north, beech and oak trees are plentiful. The oak trees can grow up to 30–45 m (98–148 ft), with a diameter of 1.2–2.4 m (3.9–7.9 ft).
Luxembourg has a population of half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (999 sq mi). [2] Luxembourg is a parliamentary representative democracy with a constitutional monarchy, ruled by a Grand Duke. It is the world's only remaining sovereign Grand Duchy.
According to the 2012 Environmental Performance Index, Luxembourg is one of the world's best performers in environmental protection, ranking fourth out of 132 assessed countries. [106] In 2020, it ranked second out of 180 countries. [107] Luxembourg also ranks sixth among the top ten most liveable cities in the world by Mercer's. [108]
The division of Earth by the Equator and the prime meridian Map roughly depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres. In geography and cartography, hemispheres of Earth are any division of the globe into two equal halves (hemispheres), typically divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator and into western and eastern halves by the Prime meridian.
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Image credits: Ibis_Wolfie In the 1930s, Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers from General Drafting Co. were making a road map of New York state. They decided to make up a fictitious hamlet called ...
The astronomic prime meridian at Greenwich, England. The geodetic prime meridian is actually 102.478 meters east of this point since the adoption of WGS84. Toward the ending of the 12th century there were two main locations that were acknowledged as the geographic location of the meridian, France and Britain.
Highest point — Kneiff at 560 m, in Troisvierges [1 Lowest point — confluence of Sauer and Moselle Rivers at 129.9 m, in Wasserbillig [citation needed; The CIA World Factbook (2024) gives Buurgplaatz, at 559 m, as the highest point; this was the previously established highest point before new results in 1997. [1]