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The Greater Region Luxembourg, Lorraine, Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate and Wallonia

Tuesday, 16 October 2012 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General, European Union, European Capital of Culture Reading Time:  2 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Greater Region is the area of Saarland, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Wallonia, the French Community of Belgium and the German-speaking Community of Belgium. It is not identical with the SaarLorLux Euregio, being in the same territory.

It is situated between the Rhine, Moselle, Saar and Meuse rivers, has an overall area of 65,401 km². Its population counts 11.2 million inhabitants, representing 2.5% of the total population of the 27-state European Union, and accounting for the same proportion of the EU GDP.

In 2007 Luxembourg and the Greater Region, together with city of Sibiu, Romania, were designated by the European Union for a period of one year to be the European Capital of Culture, during which they were given a chance to showcase their cultural life and cultural development.

In the Greater Region more than 1,200 museums and other institutions present and conserve the heritage of this core European region. The history of the Greater Region and its subdivisions is a mirror of the History of Europe starting from the prehistory up to the current European history.

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