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The Kingdom of Belgium is divided into three regions.Two of these regions, Flanders and Wallonia, are each subdivided into five provinces.The third region, Brussels, does not belong to any province, nor is it subdivided into provinces.
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.
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The Royal Military Academy (French: École royale militaire, pronounced [ekɔl ʁwajal militɛʁ]; Dutch: Koninklijke Militaire School, pronounced [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə miliˈtɛːrə ˈsxoːl]) is the military university of Belgium.
The line, which was standard gauge, ran for some 75 kilometres (47 mi) across the High Fens to the south of Aachen in a roughly southward direction from Aachen via Raeren (the site of the depot), Monschau and Malmedy to Trois-Ponts, with a 20 km (12 mi) eastward branch from Oberweywertz [] to Bütgenbach and Losheim (Hellenthal) [].
In 2003, the network constituted 3,518 kilometres (2,186 mi) of railways, all of which were standard gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).Of all of those railways, 2,631 kilometres (1,635 mi) were also electrified.
After World War I, motorized ambulances made their entry into Belgian civilian life. Various competing public and private organizations, such as health insurers, hospitals, municipal governments and the Red Cross, started providing ambulance services to their respective clients or populations, or concluded contracts with other parties to this end.
NMBS/SNCB is an autonomous government company, formed in 1926 as successor to the Belgian State Railways.From 1942 to 1944, amid Nazi Germany's occupation of Belgium, the company was paid 51 million Belgian francs by the Nazi Germany to send 28 trains carrying 25,843 Jews and Roma people to Auschwitz where only 1,195 survived. [2]