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This is a list of cities in Belgium. City status in Belgium is granted to a select group of municipalities by a royal decree or by an act of law. In 2022, the five largest cities or municipalities in Belgium in terms of population were Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, and Brussels. [1]
the Dutch language area; the French language area; the German language area; the bilingual Brussels-Capital area; All these entities have geographical boundaries. The language areas have no offices or powers and exist de facto as geographical circumscriptions, serving only to delineate the empowered subdivisions. The institutional communities ...
French Dutch German; Anderlecht: Anderlek Bruxelles: Brussel: Brüssel Ixelles: Elsene: Forest: Vorst: Auderghem: Oudergem: Schaerbeek: Schaarbeek: Berchem-Sainte-Agathe
Belgium comprises 581 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten; French: communes; German: Gemeinden), 300 of them grouped into five provinces in Flanders and 262 others in five provinces in Wallonia, while the remaining 19 are in the Brussels Capital Region, which is not divided in provinces. In most cases, the municipalities are the smallest ...
In 1962–1963 four language areas were formally determined: the Dutch-language area (now also corresponding with the Flemish Region), the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital, (whose borders came to determine those of the present Brussels-Capital Region), the French-language area, and the German-language area (together coinciding with Wallonia).
Estimates of the French-speaking population of Flanders vary from 120,000, [6] around 200,000, [7] to around 300,000. [8] The French Community of Belgium makes up about 40% of the total population of Belgium; 60% of the population belongs to the Flemish Community, and 1% to the German-speaking Community.
Belgian French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais). The French language spoken in Belgium differs very little from that of France or Switzerland.
The list of municipalities of Belgium is a survey of the following lists because Belgium is divided in three regions: Brussels-Capital Region or Brussels, see List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (19 municipalities) Flemish Region or Flanders, see List of municipalities of the Flemish Region (300 municipalities)