2. Content
• Location and Geography
• History and Politics
• Trivias About Andorra
• Media in Andorra
• Culture
3. Location and Geography
• In the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain
• 468 km2 , sixth-smallest nations in Europa and 191st in World
4. History and Politics
• Charles the Great (Charlamagne)
• Co-principality ( French and Spanish Kings)
• President of French and Bishop of Urgell
• Influence of French Revolution
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• 20th Century
• Modern Democracy
6. • Official Language: Catalan
• Spanish, French, Portuguese
• Population: 85.458
• %90 Roman Catholic
• Our Lady of Meritxell
• Universitat d'Andorra
7. Media in Andorra
• 1 public TV station, 2 public Radio stations, 10 commercial radio
stations
• Radio i Televisio d'Andorra
• ATV ( Andorra Televisio)
• RNA ( Radio Andorra)
• Musica Andorra
• Began broadcast in 1990
• Owned by goverment
8. Newspapers
• Diari d'Andorra ( Daily Andorra)
• Published since 1991
• Daily distribution 19.000 and 30000 in
• weekends
9. • El Periodic d'Andorra
• Published since 1997
• Daily distribution 10.000
10. • Bondia
• Two Editions ( Andorra , Lleida)
• Published since 2006
• Daily distrubition 15000
11. Culture
• 10 million tourist per year
• Winter sports, summer climate, duty- free shopping
12.
13. • Catalan culture
• Contrapas and marratxa
• Our Lady of Meritxell day
• Malvina Reynold's 'Andorra' song
14. Our Lady of Meritxell Day
• 8 September
• Celebrated every year since 1873
• Fire on Our Lady of Meritxell day in 1972