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Monaco in a nutshell: eight easy-going questions about the essentials of this Mediterranean gem. Everyone can play along, whatever their age.
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The circuit, only about 3.3 km long, winds past the harbour, up and down steep hills and even through a tunnel, and for the rest of the year it is just ordinary roads. The race has been held since 1929, and it is the only Formula One race allowed to be shorter than the usual distance.
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Monaco's coast is only about 3.8 km long, the shortest of any country that lies on the sea. The whole country covers about 2 square kilometres, which makes it smaller than New York's Central Park and the most densely populated sovereign state in the world.
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Because Monaco is so small, AS Monaco plays in France's Ligue 1, and it has been French champion several times. In 2017 a teenage Kylian Mbappé helped Monaco win the league, just before he became a world star.
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Two whole neighbourhoods, Fontvieille and Le Portier, stand on land won from the sea. The Larvotto beach area and Fontvieille alone made Monaco about 20 percent bigger, and the newest addition, Le Portier, was finished in 2024.
Photo: Pierre Blaché from Paris, France, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
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A small heliport on the edge of the sea, in the Fontvieille district, is Monaco's only place for aircraft, and its only regular flights go to and from Nice airport. To keep the noise down, the helicopters fly in and out over the water.
Photo: Le Sharkoïste, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
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The Pelagos Sanctuary, set up in 1999, covers about 84,000 square kilometres of sea, and every kind of whale and dolphin found in the Mediterranean visits it. It is thought to be the main feeding ground in the Mediterranean for fin whales, the second-biggest animals on Earth.
Photo: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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Since 1999, the station and the whole railway line through Monaco have been underground, which freed up precious land in the city above. Part of the station even lies across the border, in the French town of Beausoleil.
Photo: Matthew Hartley from Helmshore, Lancashire, United Kingdom, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Since 1974, clowns, acrobats, jugglers and trapeze artists from all over the world have come to perform for a jury of circus experts, and today the shows take place in a big circus tent in Fontvieille. Besides the Golden Clown, the best acts can win a Silver or a Bronze Clown.
Photo: GeorgePrikkel, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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