Districts of Luxembourg

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Jose Gavinha provided me with the Luxemburgish names of the districts.

NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) is a European standard which assigns codes to regions at various levels in each country. The NUTS code for Luxembourg is LU followed by the appropriate number of zeros at levels 0-3.

I have found more information on two Web sites published by the government of Luxembourg. The Ministry of the Interior has a table  showing the populations of the districts and cantons at intervals from 1821 to 2002. Statec, the central service for statistics and economic studies, has a compendium  of commune statistics (in French). From these files, I have gleaned the information shown under Change history and Population history.

Country overview: 

Luxembourg has been an independent country for the whole of the 20th century.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Luxembourg
2. Dutch: Luxemburg, Groothertogdom Luxemburg (formal)
3. English: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (formal)
4. Finnish: Luxemburg
5. French: Luxembourg, Grand-Duché m de Luxembourg m (formal)
6. German: Luxemburg n, Großherzogtum n Luxemburg (formal)
7. Icelandic: Lúxemborg
8. Italian: Lussemburgo m
9. Norwegian: Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Storhertugdømmet Luxembourg (formal)
10. Portuguese: Luxemburgo, Grão-Ducado m do Luxemburgo m (formal)
11. Spanish: Luxemburgo, Gran Ducado m de Luxemburgo m (formal)
12. Swedish: Luxemburg

Origin of name: 

Old High German Lützelburg: little fort

Primary subdivisions: 

Luxembourg is divided into three districts.

Postal codes: 

Luxembourg uses four-digit postal codes. They don't correlate well with district or canton boundaries. Note: postal codes for addresses in Luxembourg can be identified by prefixing them with "L-".

Further subdivisions:

See the Cantons of Luxembourg page.

The districts are subdivided into cantons (Kantone in German), which are further subdivided into municipalities (communes in French, Gemeinden in German)

Origins of names: 

1. Diekirch: probably from Old High German diot: people, kirch: church (the people's church)
2. Grevenmacher: from Latin maceria: enclosing wall, with the later addition of Luxemburgish Greven: count, i.e., the Count's Macher (by way of distinction from other towns named Macher)

Change history: 

1. ~1841: Luxembourg divided into three districts: Diekirch, Grevenmacher, and Luxembourg.
2. 1857: Mersch district created.
3. 1967: Mersch district split up, with Mersch canton merging with Luxembourg district and Redange canton merging with Diekirch district.

Other names of subdivisions: 

1. Diekirch: Dikrech, Dikkrich (Luxemburgish)
2. Grevenmacher: Gréivemaacher (Luxemburgish)
3. Luxembourg: Lëtzebuerg (Luxemburgish); Luxemburg (German)

Population history:

Note: The detailed results  of the 2001 census show the population of Diekirch as 67,454, and that of Luxembourg district as 320,137. In other words, there is a disagreement between these two sources over whether 183 people should be in Diekirch or Luxembourg.