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This annotated portal describes more than 100 selected Web sites that provide information on Luxembourg. French, one of three official languages of the Grand Duchy, is generally used for administrative purposes and predominates on Web sites based there. German, also an official language, is the principal written language of commerce and the press. Letzeburgish (spelled Luxembourgish in English), a German-Moselle-Frankish dialect, is the primary spoken language, and it became the third official language in 1985.
Le Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (http://www.gouvernement.lu)
Government home page. Includes links to ministries and departments, publications, archives, and news. Searchable. In French.
Governments on the WWW: Luxembourg (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/lu.html)
Links to national and municipal institutions as well as representations in foreign countries, political parties, and more.
Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk)
Annotated directory of selected Web sites, compiled by subject and information experts in universities and related organizations in the United Kingdom. Extensive annotations are complemented by subject indexing. Search on Luxembourg.
Luxembourg Central (http://luxcentral.com)
General information and links about Luxembourg. By Gary Little.
Open Directory Project. Regional: Europe: Luxembourg (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Luxembourg/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines. The number of sites is listed next to each category.
United Kingdom. Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). Country Profiles: Luxembourg
(http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country-profiles/europe/luxembourg/)
Prepared by FCO desk officers, the profile provides a general overview of Luxembourg and includes information on the country's recent history, recent political developments, relations with the international community, and bilateral political and commercial relations with the UK, as well as links to other relevant pages on the FCO site.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Luxembourg (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/lu.html)
General information and statistics about Luxembourg, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
U.S. State Department--Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on country link.
Directories
The Library of Congress possesses residential and organizational telephone directories from Luxembourg for most years from 1949 through the late 1990s.
A search for both the name of a person and a term such as "email" or "e mail" or "telephone" or "tel" will often retrieve a Webpage with that person's contact information.
All Nations, Expatriates & Travelers Telephone Search Engine (http://www.escapeartist.com/global1/directories.htm)
Includes dialing codes, directories, embassies, voltages and rates worldwide. From EscapeArtist.com.
Luxweb (http://www.edituspro.lu)
Links to Luxembourg white and yellow pages. In French, German, and English.
MESA (http://www.metager.de)
Meta Email Search Agent searches several e-mail directories simultaneously. Based in Hannover, Germany.
Statistical Resources
CIFP -- Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/)
CIFP was initiated in 1997 by two Canadian institutions: the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs. The CIFP database includes over one hundred performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning 15 years for most indicators. The data are drawn from open sources, including UN offices, the World Bank, etc, and attempt to measure domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages.
InfoNation. United Nations Cyber Schoolbus (http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp)
Allows the user to select up to five countries and view a comparative statistical chart for them by clicking on one of the following: Overview; Economy, Environment, Health, and Technology. Each of those 5 categories includes several statistical indicators. 'Overview' includes demographic indicators.
Population Index on the Web (http://popindex.princeton.edu)
Population Index is a quarterly periodical that began in 1935. Each issue presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, and other materials on population topics. The Web site makes available a searchable and browseable bibliographic database of the journal's contents from 1986 to 2000.
STATEC Luxembourg (http://www.statec.public.lu/fr/index.html)
The official statistical site of the Luxembourg government. Includes links to information about the mission and products and services of the organization and various publications. Searchable. In French.
University of Maryland. University Libraries. Online Sources of International Statistics (http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/intstat.html)
Searchable annotated portal for statistics in all fields. Categories include U.S. government sources, foreign countries, United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, academic sources, search engines, and metasites.
University of Michigan. University Library. Documents Center. Statistical Resources on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html)
Annotated source for statistics in all fields, grouped within 24 categories. Searchable.
National Symbols
Flags of the World: Luxembourg (http://www.fotw.us/flags/lu.html)
Current and earlier flags for Luxembourg, coats of arms, and brief information on history.
National Anthems: Luxembourg (http://www.national-anthems.net/LU/)
For each country's national anthem, the Nationalanthems.com Web site provides an audio file and the lyrics in the national language and in English. Links to additional sites with national anthems.
World Flag Database: Luxembourg (http://www.flags.net/LUXE.htm)
Links to national and civil ensign flags as well as the presidential flag.
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