Has three official languages - Dutch, French and German - and produces roughly 220,000 tonnes of chocolate a year.
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Belgium
Kingdom of Belgium ยท Belgien
Europe
ยท Western Europe
0Population
30.53Kkmยฒ of land
$46.42KGDP / person
BrusselsCapital
- ISO codes
- BE ยท BEL
- Density
- 376 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- German, French, Dutch
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +32
- Internet domain
- .be
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 50.7850ยฐ N, 4.8000ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Belgian
- UN region
- Western Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $533.1B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Belgium stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
80th
of 242 ยท 0.15% of world population
Land area
140th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
33rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
32nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Belgium
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 11,484,055 people, the 80th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.15 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 30,528 kmยฒ, making it the 140th largest country here - about 11.8 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 376 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Brussels, at 50.84ยฐ N, 4.33ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,743,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Brussels.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
Has 3 official languages: German, French and Dutch.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Brussels
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UTC+02:00
Cities
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Brussels
Brussels
50.8353ยฐ N, 4.3314ยฐ E
1.74M
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Belgium.