7. Despite the country's motto of "Mir wΓ«lle bleiwe wat mir sinn" ("We want to stay what we are"), following the Second World War Luxembourg π±πΊ briefly expanded to claim a small part of Germany π©πͺ.
In 1959 it was returned to Germany in exchange for a settlement payment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_annexation_plans_after_the_Second_World_War
8. In what can only be explained as a deliberate attempt to infuriate the writers of geocoding software, we note that immediately to the west of Luxembourg π±πΊ, Belgium π§πͺ has a province also named "Luxembourg" which is actually larger than the entire country of Luxembourg!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_(Belgium)
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