Top 10 Interesting Facts About Andorra
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1 Did you know that a russian adventurer once claimed to become the king of andorra on july 6 1934 boris scocceref claimed to be the sovereign of andorra and even managed to get the support of andorra's general counsel two days later he proclaimed himself boris the first king of andorra and a declared war on one of the co-princes of andorra however two weeks later he was arrested and expelled from spain.
2 Andorra has no national bank and never had its own currency it uses the euro and since there is no national bank it has to use a private bank if it wants a debt.
3 Andorra declared a war on germany in world war one but did not send out any soldiers when the germans occupied france in world war ii they had an outpost on the andorra border but did not really send any troops inside in fact andorra didn't officially declare peace with germany till 1957 even though world war ii had ended in 1945.
4 Andorra produces a lot of tobacco and being a tax haven cigarettes are much cheaper here than its neighboring countries of spain and france in fact you can see a lot of spanish and french people coming across the border just to buy cheap cigarettes.
5 Andorra has the highest tourists per capita in the world its population is 77 000 but it gets more than 8.5 million visitors per year now we leave it to you to decide how many of these are spanish and french people who come across the border to buy cheaper petrol or cigarettes.
6 Andorra is the world's only co-principality country in the world a principality is a country that is ruled by a prince and the fact that the president of france and the bishop of a gel also rule it make them co-princes and andorra the world's only co-principality.
7 Despite attracting 8.5 million tourists every year you would be shocked to know that andorra has no international airports you can enter only via france or spain.
8 You would be surprised to know that only one-third of the people living in andorra are actually andorran the remaining two-third majority is formed by spanish french or portuguese people.
9 Andorran law requires the eldest able-bodied man of a house to keep a rifle and to be used only when needed for national protection well talking of national security.
10 The country has no army at all that was all about andorra do like share comment and subscribe to our website.
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