“What country has only 35,000 inhabitants?” my husband wondered as he scrolled through an information sheet on Liechtenstein. “How can that be?”
Take 62 square miles, the vast majority of it a near-vertical,uninhabitable, mountainous mass, plunk it between similarly sheer peaks in Austria and Switzerland, and you have Liechtenstein, the sixth smallest country in the world. And its population really is about 35,000 people. (Anyone care to guess the smallest country? Answer forthcoming at end of this posting.)
In one of my family’s several road trips through western Europe, we’d driven through the southern tip of Liechtenstein,… Read more...