I live in Belgium. Even if it's often cold and raining, don't miss this destination.
Belgium covers a small geographical area estimated at 30.515 km², with a population of 10.200.000 inhabitants.
Belgium is geographically divided into 3 regions : lower Belgium (coast, polders, Kempen - cities : Antwerpen, Ghent, Knokke, Oostende, Brugge, Hasselt, Mol), Central Belgium (Flanders and Walloon Brabant, Hainaut - cities : Brussels, Mons, Charleroi, Tournai), the 3rd region is called Ardennes (Namur, Liège, Luxembourg, Signal de Botrange).
We have 10 provinces : Anvers, Brabant Flamand, Brabant Wallon, Flandre Orientale, Flandre Occidentale, Hainaut, Liège, Namur, Limburg and Luxembourg.
The Belgian motto is "L'Union fait la force", it means "Union make force" !
Our national hymn is called "Brabançonne". You can find sentences of this hymn Place Surlet de Chokier in Brussels, also with a monument dedicated to this hymn.
Belgium is a Kingdom, Independant since October 4th, 1830.
The first King was Leopold I (1790-1865), then Leopold II (called Constructor King)(1835-1909), Albert I (called Chevalier King) (1875-1934) he died accidentally climbing a rock in Marche Les Dames - musuem, Leopold III (1903-1983), Baudouin I (1930-1993) and now : Albert II since 1993, born in 1934, brother of Baudouin I.
There are three officially recognized languages: French and Dutch are the main languages; German is spoken by a small segment of the population and English is widely spoken.
English French Dutch English French Dutch
Antwerp Anvers Antwerpen Namur Namur Namen
Bruges Bruges Brugge Bastogne Bastogne Bastenaken
Brussels Bruxelles Brussel Arlon Arlon Aarlen
Tournai Tournai Doornik Yeper Ypres Ieper
Ghent Gand Gent Kortrijk Courtrai Kortrijk
Leuven Louvain Leuven Aalst Alost Aalst
Liege Liege Luik Tongeren Tongres Tongeren
Mechelen Malines Mechelen Wavre Wavre Waver
Mons Mons Bergen Soignies Soignies Zinnik
Ostend Ostende Oostende
email me
add as friend
Comments for Nice_Girl about Belgium