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Provinces de Belgique Provinzen ... Région de Bruxelles-Capitale: Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt Brussels City: Rudi Vervoort: Since 2013: 162 km 2 (63 sq mi) 1,249,597
Regional transport in Belgium is operated by regional companies: De Lijn in Flanders operates the Kusttram and the Antwerp pre-metro and tram, and the tram in Gent, as well as a bus network both urban and interurban, TEC in Wallonia operates the Charleroi lightrail system as well as a bus network and MIVB/STIB in the Brussels Capital-Region ...
Jean-Baptiste de Bouge (1757–1833) [1] was a Belgian cartographer whose career spanned decades of major political upheaval, his country in turn being (part of) the Austrian Netherlands, the United Belgian States, the French First Republic, the Napoleonic Empire, and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, before becoming the Kingdom of Belgium. [2]
Highest point — Signal de Botrange (694 m) Lowest point — De Moeren (−3 m) The Belgian National Geographic Institute calculated that the central point of Belgium lies at coordinates 50°38′28″N 4°40′05″E / 50.64111°N 4.66806°E / 50.64111; 4.66806 , in Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin in the municipality of Walhain
Belgium, [b] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [c] is a country in Northwestern Europe.Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it 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.
This is a schematic overview of the basic federal structure of Belgium as defined by Title I of the Belgian Constitution. Each of the entities either have their own parliament and government (for the federal state, the communities and the regions) or their own council and executive college (for provinces and municipalities). The entities in italics do not have their own institutions ...
Map of Maastricht, Netherlands Map of Liège, Belgium. The Ferraris map or map of the Austrian Netherlands is a historical map created between 1770 and 1778 by Count Joseph de Ferraris and includes 275 sheets [1] published at the original scale of 1/11.5.
Wallonia (/ w ɒ ˈ l oʊ n i ə / wol-OH-nee-ə; French: Wallonie ⓘ; Walloon: Waloneye or Walonreye), [a] officially the Walloon Region (French: Région wallonne [ʁeʒjɔ̃ walɔn]; Walloon: Redjon walone), [b] is one of the three regions of Belgium—along with Flanders and Brussels. [5]