Andorra 2 euro 2017 Country in the Pyrenees.

Andorra 2 euro 2017 year. Country in the Pyrenees.

Andorra, the full official form The Principality of Andorra is one of the miniature states of Europe that has no access to the sea, located in the eastern Pyrenees between France and Spain, and associated with them. The name of the country comes from the Basque. andurrial - "wasteland".

The Pyrenees are a mountain system in France, Spain and Andorra, between the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean Sea.

The length is 450 km, the altitude is up to 3404 m (Aneto peak). In the west, limestones and karst are developed; in the center - mostly crystalline rocks, alpine forms of relief, glaciers; in the east the ridges drop, alternating with intermontane depressions. In the lower parts of the slopes there are thickets of Mediterranean shrubs, up to 1800-2100 m forests predominate, above - bushes and meadows. Deposits of bauxite, iron ore.

Pyrenees is an important climate center (north of the Pyrenees is a temperate climate, and to the south with a subtropical climate).

This is one of the most difficult mountain systems in Europe: they have only a few conveniently located passes. All the passes are at an altitude of 1500-2000 m. Therefore, only four railways go from Spain to France: two of them bypass the Pyrenees along the coast from the northwest and southeast, and two more railroads cross the Pyrenees at the sites of Aerbe - Oloron- Saint-Marie and Ripole-Prades, through a system of tunnels.

The name Pyrenees comes from the heroine of ancient mythology - Piren, which was torn to pieces by beasts and buried in the Pyrenees.

Obverse: The expanded map of the EU countries, the version of the sample 2007, 12 stars (according to the original number of countries in the eurozone) and 6 parallel lines - a symbol of stability. The nominal value of the coin is "2 EURO".

Reverse: in the outer ring - traditional 12 stars of the EU; In the inner circle there is a triangle - "a simplified version of the country map - and inscriptions in three lines" Andorra "," EL PAÍS DELS PIRINEUS "," 2017 ".

Release date: 07/02/2018