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It has a surface area of 16,901 km 2 (6,526 sq mi), or 55.1% of Belgium, and is also divided into 5 provinces which contain a total of 262 municipalities. Its capital is Namur. The official languages are French and, only in the nine eastern municipalities that form the German-speaking Community near the German border, German.
Dutch is the most spoken primary language of Belgium and the official language of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region (merged to Flanders). Along with French, it is an official language of the Brussels-Capital Region. The main Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium are Brabantian, West Flemish, East Flemish, and Limburgish.
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Of the approximately 53,200 Portuguese that arrived in Belgium since 2000, 76.85% did so after 2008 and 54.46% after 2012, year in which the unemployment rate in Portugal soared to 16.1%. [ 48 ] The number of Portuguese nationals – thus excluding those who hold Belgian nationality as well – has doubled in the period 2000–2022, rising from ...
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
The English name (unless archaic) should take precedence over all other names. If there is no English name (which is most cases) use the official local name first. If there is a name for this place in the other national language (i.e. Dutch or French), include that also in the lead immediately following the local name. Include other languages ...
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It is the majority language in Belgium, being spoken natively by three-fifths of the population. Its various dialects contain a number of lexical and a few grammatical features which distinguish them from the standard language. [13] As in the Netherlands, the pronunciation of Standard Dutch is affected by the native dialect of the speaker.