Belgium
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(Reguidit frae Belgian)
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Coordinates: 50°50′N 4°00′E / 50.833°N 4.000°E
Kinrick o Belgium | |
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Location o Belgium (dark green) – on the European continent (green & dark grey) | |
Caipital and largest city | Brussels 50°51′N 4°21′E / 50.850°N 4.350°E |
Offeecial leids | Dutch French German |
Demonym(s) | Belgian |
Govrenment | Federal pairlamentary constitutional monarchy[1] |
• Monarch | Philippe |
Alexander De Croo | |
Legislatur | Federal Pairlament |
Senate | |
Chaumer o Representatives | |
Unthirldom frae the Netherlands | |
• Declared | 4 October 1830 |
19 Apryle 1839 | |
1 Januar 1958 | |
Aurie | |
• Total | 30,528 km2 (11,787 sq mi) (140t) |
• Water (%) | 6.4 |
Population | |
• 1 Januar 2016 census | 11,250,585[2] (75t) |
• Density | 363.6/km2 (941.7/sq mi) (23rd) |
GDP (PPP) | 2016 estimate |
• Total | $508.598 billion[3] (38t) |
• Per capita | $44,881[3] (20t) |
GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate |
• Tot | $470.179 billion[3] (23rd) |
• Per capita | $41,491[3] (17t) |
Gini (2011) | 26.3[4] law |
HDI (2014) | 0.890[5] verra heich · 21st |
Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Drivin side | right |
Cawin code | +32 |
ISO 3166 code | BE |
Internet TLD | .be |
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The Kinrick o Belgium (Dutch: Koninkrijk België; French: Royaume de Belgique; German: Königreich Belgien) is a kintra in nor'wastren Europe that haes laund mairches wi the Netherlands, Fraunce, Luxembourg an Germany, Belgium proclaimed its unthirldom, an biway, its foondaition, in Juin 1831. It wis ane o the foondin members o the European Union. Belgium haes three main pairts; Flanders, whar folk speak Dutch, Wallonia whar French is the mither tung, an Brussels, which is bilingual. There is a German speaking community in Wallonia an aw.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Government type: Belgium". The World Factbook. CIA. Archived frae the original on 7 Februar 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2011. Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Bevolkingscijfers per provincie en per gemeente op 1 januari 2016/Chiffres de la population par province et par commune, a la date du 1er Janvier 2016" (PDF). Statistics Belgium, Federal Public Service Economy. 24 Januar 2016. Retrieved 24 Mairch 2016.
- ↑ a b c d "Belgium". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 24 Mey 2017.
- ↑ "Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income (source: SILC)". Eurostat Data Explorer. Archived frae the original on 4 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ↑ "Human Development Report 2015" (PDF). United Nations. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ↑ The Belgian Constitution (PDF). Brussels, Belgium: Belgian House of Representatives. Mey 2014. p. 63. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
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