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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 201
2 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 1
Over 3,047 m 1 (2012) Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 1
Under 914 m 1 (2012) Heliports
1 (2012)
Pipelines
Gas 142 km; refined products 27 km (2010) Railways World Ranking: 123
Total 275 km
Standard gauge 275 km 1.435-m gauge (243 km electrified) (2008) Roadways World Ranking: 152
Total 5,227 km
Paved 5,227 km (includes 147 km of expressways) (2008) Waterways World Ranking: 105
37 km (on Moselle River) (2010) Merchant marine World Ranking: 71
Total 49
By type Bulk carrier 2, cargo 3, chemical tanker 20, container 10, petroleum tanker 2, roll on/roll off 12 Foreign-owned 48 (Belgium 11, Denmark 1, France 15, Germany 9, Japan 3, Netherlands 3, Switzerland 1, UK 5) Registered in other countries 18 (Italy 14, Malta 3, Panama 1) (2010) Ports and terminals
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GPS points from Luxembourg (Luxembourg City)
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Founded in 963, Luxembourg became a grand duchy in 1815 and an independent state under the Netherlands. It lost more than half of its territory to Belgium in 1839 but gained a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was attained in 1867. Overrun by Germany in both world wars, it ended its neutrality in 1948 when it entered into the Benelux Customs Union and when it joined NATO the following year. In 1957, Luxembourg became one of the six founding countries of the European Economic Community (later the European Union), and in 1999 it joined the euro currency area.