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Brussels agglomeration. The Brussels metropolitan area (French: Région métropolitaine de Bruxelles; Dutch: Stedelijk gebied van Brussel) is the metropolitan area of Brussels. The metropolitan area covers three regions with an area of 3,377 km 2 (1,304 sq mi). The largest cities or towns within the metropolitan area are Brussels, Leuven and ...
The metropolitan area of Brussels is divided into three levels. Firstly, the central agglomeration (within the regional borders), with a population of 1,218,255 inhabitants. [ 27 ] Adding the closest suburbs (French: banlieues , Dutch: buitenwijken ) gives a total population of 1,831,496.
Rank metropolitan area region core city population metro population LUZ population LUZ area LUZ pop. density 1 Brussels-Capital Region Brussels 194,291 (2019): 1,789,447 (2006)
Belgium covers an area of 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.7 million; its population density of 383/km 2 (990/sq mi) ranks 22nd in the world and sixth in Europe. The capital and largest metropolitan region is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven.
The total area is 33.09 km 2 (12.78 sq mi), which gives a population density of 5,949/km 2 (15,410/sq mi). [5] As of 2023, there were 75,998 registered non-Belgians in the City. [6] In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).
List includes metropolitan areas according only to the studies of ESPON, Eurostat, and OECD.For this reason some metropolitan areas, like the Italian Genoa Metropolitan Area (with a population of 1,510,781 as of 2010 [1]) or the Ukrainian Kryvyi Rih metropolitan area (with a population of 1,170,953 as of 2019 [2]), are not included in this list, with data by other statistic survey institutes.
A map of the Flemish Diamond within Belgium. The municipalities seen as being part of the "Flemish Diamond". The Flemish Diamond has a high degree of urban sprawl.. The Flemish Diamond (Dutch: Vlaamse Ruit) is the Flemish reference to a network of four metropolitan areas in Belgium, three of which are in the central provinces of Flanders, together with the Brussels-Capital Region. [1]
The largest and most populous of the municipalities is the City of Brussels, covering 32.6 km 2 (12.6 sq mi) with 176,545 inhabitants. The least populous is Koekelberg with 21,609 inhabitants, and the smallest in area is Saint-Josse-ten-Noode , which is only 1.1 km 2 (0.4 sq mi) and also has the highest population density , at 24,650/km 2 ...