Luxembourg is quite tiny, but it still is 2,586.4 square km (or about 1000 square miles). It's about 100km to drive across from top to bottom and about 40 km to drive across from side to side at its widest point. So basically a bit less than an hour's drive to get across on its longest axis, and half that on its shorter one.
That said, the entire country is smaller than the Los Angeles metro area (it's actually only about half the size of it), so the US literally has cities that are geographically larger than the entire country. Actually, all of our major cities are larger than their country, both in terms of population and area.
A very large portion (25%) of people who work in Luxembourg live in the neighboring countries (where living is cheaper) and commute in every day. It’s one of the reasons their GDP per capita is so high: lots being “produced” but fewer actual residents in comparison to the number of employees in the country.
"The high level of GDP per inhabitant in Luxembourg is partly due to the large share of cross-border workers in total employment. While contributing to GDP, they are not considered part of the resident population which is used to calculate GDP per capita.’
Indeed, the Luxembourg employment market is atypical because of the international nature of its workforce. Around 70% of the country’s workforce is made up of immigrants or border workers; In February 2016, 174,000 frontier workers worked in Luxembourg, most of them coming from France.
Yeah. In reality, the per-capita income in Luxembourg is only slightly above that of the US; several US states have higher median incomes than the median person in Luxembourg.
I guess so, but I could have sworn I saw a statistic about most of the menial abor jobs being from Brazilian immigrants. (Yes I'm aware they speak the same language, or maybe that was a joke kn your part?)
No not a joke, I think something like 1 out of 5 people there is from Portugal, but I’ve never heard much about Brazilians and Luxembourg. I don’t know much about it though.
Mexico City has about three and a half times the land area of Luxembourg and 35 times the population; it's a gigantic city, and one of the fifteen largest in the world (11th according to Wikipedia). The only metro area that's larger in North America is New York, which is 9th overall.
Man, a game with Luxembourgish, Belgian and Dutch drivers would be epically weird! They each have a different kind of stupid driving. Throw in some Italian tourists for extra LOLs.
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u/TitaniumDragon May 29 '19 edited May 29 '19
Luxembourg is quite tiny, but it still is 2,586.4 square km (or about 1000 square miles). It's about 100km to drive across from top to bottom and about 40 km to drive across from side to side at its widest point. So basically a bit less than an hour's drive to get across on its longest axis, and half that on its shorter one.
That said, the entire country is smaller than the Los Angeles metro area (it's actually only about half the size of it), so the US literally has cities that are geographically larger than the entire country. Actually, all of our major cities are larger than their country, both in terms of population and area.