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Map of the Seventeen Provinces, red showing the border between the independent (Northern) Netherlands and the Southern Netherlands. The medieval Low Countries, including present-day Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, as well as parts of modern Germany and France, comprised a number of rival and independent feudal states of varying sizes.
The Flemish Region or Flanders (Dutch: Vlaams Gewest or Vlaanderen) occupies the northern part of Belgium. It has a surface area of 13,626 km 2 (5,261 sq mi), or 44.4% of Belgium, and is divided into 5 provinces which contain a total of 300 municipalities. The official language is Dutch.
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Map of Belgian regions and provinces. Belgium has an area of 30,689 km² (11,849 sq mi), with 16,901 km 2 (6,526 sq mi) or 55.1% for the Walloon Region , 13,626 km 2 (5,261 sq mi) or 44.4% for the Flemish Region , and 162 km 2 (63 sq mi) or 0.5% for the Brussels Capital Region .
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Belgium, [a] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [b] is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. It covers an area of 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi) [4] and has a population of more than 11.7 million ...
Currently for Belgium, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions: 3 regions; 10 provinces; Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is BE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Belgium. The second part is three letters. For the provinces, the first letter indicates the region where the province is in:
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