Andorra is a very small country in the Pyrenees, the mountains between France and Spain. You can cross it in a short drive. About 85,000 people lived there in 2014 — fewer than in many districts of Taipei. The capital is Andorra la Vella. Catalan is the language of the country, though you will also hear French and Spanish. Travellers know it for skiing and for shopping, because goods have often been cheaper there than next door. In English we say Andorra for the country, without the. Though actually, it is not a toy place with no real government: it has its own laws, and for a long time it has had two princes at once — the President of France and a bishop from Spain — which sounds like a story, but that is how the country was set up. People go for holidays; it is also a real state.