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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 order , decree , or by an act of law. In 2022, the five largest cities or municipalities in Belgium in terms of population were Brussels , Antwerp , Ghent , Charleroi , and Liège .
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)
This is a list of most populous municipalities in Belgium. Out of the 581 Belgian municipalities (as of 1 January 2019) the list contains all those with a population over 30,000. All of Belgium is divided into municipalities, however a municipality may or may not have an additional royally-decreed city status.
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 ...
At the creation of Belgium in 1831, there were 2,739 municipalities in the country, which had fallen to 2,663 municipalities by 1961. Following a series of decisions and actions, carried out in 1975, 1983 and 2019, the fusion of the Belgian municipalities reduced the national total to 581 municipalities.
Lagrange (Named for the Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French estate of the Marquis de Lafayette) LaRue (named for William LaRue, town founder) Leroy Township, Lake County (named for Le Roy, New York) Lorain County (for the French province of Lorraine) Lorain; Louisville; Marietta (to honor Marie Antoinette)
Map of Belgium. This is a list of municipalities in Belgium which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Lists of cities and towns list notable cities and towns in each country, and are organized by geographic area. See Lists of cities and Lists of towns for additional lists organized in different ways, such as by size.,