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A 1659 treaty handed nearby villages to France but left Llívia out because it held town status. The figure is taken from Met Office, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Llívia survived as a Spanish town inside France

A 1659 treaty handed nearby villages to France but left Llívia out because it held town status The Treaty of the Pyrenees moved the border south, yet Llívia counted as a town rather than a village and stayed with Spain. It now forms a small Spanish island of land in French territory, reachable from Spain by a narrow road corridor under treaty. The old town keeps a pharmacy that has operated since the fifteenth century. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A 1659 treaty handed nearby villages to France but left Llívia out because it held town status. The figure is taken from Met Office, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.