Andorra shares land borders with both France and Spain and is not a member of the European Union.
The microstate is located in the eastern Pyrenees, between France to the north and Spain to the south. It covers about 468 square kilometres, making it one of Europe's smallest countries. Its mountainous terrain helped preserve its separate political identity.
Andorra is a parliamentary co-principality. Its two heads of state are the president of France and the bishop of Urgell in Spain, a distinctive arrangement that developed from medieval feudal relationships. The country's constitution, approved in 1993, established its modern parliamentary system.
Andorra uses the euro through a monetary agreement with the European Union, but it is not an EU member state. Catalan is its official language. Monaco borders France but not Spain, while San Marino and Liechtenstein are surrounded by Italy and Switzerland respectively.