Approximately the quarter of territory of Luxembourg is processed, one more quarter is occupied under onions and pastures. The basic areas of agriculture: м'ясомолочне animal industries and зернокормове plant growing.
Near southern border of Luxembourg there are rich deposits зопника which belong to extensive Лотаринзького to pool. In 1970 му to year here it has been extracted approximately 5,7 million tons of ore, but manufacture was quickly reduced and has definitively been curtailed in the beginning of 1997. Then there was extinguished last blast furnace. Steelmaking manufacture last years worked on import ore which was imported basically from France. On a steel particle in 1952г. Third of gross national product, and in 1994 - only 6 % had. From 1974г. Till 1990 steel release was reduced from 6,4 million т to 3,5 million т, and pig-iron manufacture has decreased twice. The basic steelmaking concern ARBED based in 1911, was the greatest industrial enterprise of the country. Now steelmaking manufacture is reoriented on breakage use as raw materials and refusible in electric furnaces.
The economy of Luxembourg is stable and prospers, the rate of unemployment nowadays makes approximately 3 %. The post-war history of economy is connected with metallurgical area and gradual, but painful enough process of its replacement by sector of financial services.
The official name - the Big Duchy Luxembourg (Grand - Duche de Luxembourg).
The geographical position - the state is located in the Western Europe. Borders on Belgium, Germany and France. No exit to the sea has. Together with Belgium and the Netherlands the Benelux countries enter into association.
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