Kingdom of Belgium Dutch: Koninkrijk België; French: Royaume de Belgique CAPITAL: Brussels (Brussel, Bruxelles) FLAG: The flag, adopted in 1831, is a tricolor of black, yellow, and red vertical stripes. ANTHEM: La Brabançonne (The Song of...

Belgium, whose official name is the Kingdom of Belgium, is a densely populated country not much larger than the state of Maryland. It covers an area of 11,781 square miles (30,519 square kilometers), bounded on the north by The Netherlands, on the...

Belgium POPULATION 10,274,595 ROMAN CATHOLIC 85.6 percent MUSLIM 3 percent ANGLICAN AND OTHER PROTESTANT 1.7 percent ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN 0.3 percent JEWISH 0.1 percent NONAFFILIATED AND OTHER 9.3 percent Country Overview Introduction The Kingdom of...

Belgium Covering an area that is about the size of Maryland, and with 10,263,414 inhabitants in 2001, Belgium stands out as one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Its small territory is squeezed between the Netherlands to the north,...

country of northwestern Europe. It is one of the smallest and most densely populated European countries, and it has been, since its independence in 1830, a representative democracy headed by a hereditary constitutional monarch. Initially, Belgium had a...

Belgium is a small state in the north of Western Europe, traditionally divided into two culturally, linguistically and politically distinct regions. Flanders in the north is Flemish-speaking and Walloon in the south is French-speaking. Separate...

Country, northwestern Europe. Area: 11,787 sq mi (30,528 sq km). Population (2006 est.): 10,517,000. Capital: Brussels. The population consists mostly of Flemings and Walloons. The Flemings, more than half of the population, speak Flemish (Dutch) and...

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