page_title: Andorra
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Andorra / Geography
caption_attribution_description: General map of Andorra. I, Karl Musser, created it based on a map on the Andorra government web page.
context_page_description: Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been created by Charlemagne, Andorra was ruled by the count of Urgell until 988, when it was transferred to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urgell. The present principality was formed by a charter in 1278. It is known as a principality as it is a diarchy headed by two princes: the Bishop of Urgell in Catalonia, Spain, and the President of the French Republic.
  Andorra is the sixth-smallest nation in Europe, having an area of 468 square kilometres and a population of approximately 77,006. The Andorran people are a Romance ethnic group of originally Catalan descent. Andorra is the 16th-smallest country in the world by land and the 11th-smallest by population. Its capital, Andorra la Vella, is the highest capital city in Europe, at an elevation of 1,023 metres above sea level. The official language is Catalan, but Spanish, Portuguese, and French are also commonly spoken.
  Tourism in Andorra sees an estimated 10.2 million visitors annually.
caption: Map of Andorra with its seven parishes labelled
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