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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Belgium
- Time ZoneGMT/UTC +2
- Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Weights & measures: Metric
Must See - Properties on UNESCO World Heritage List
- Flemish Béguinages
- The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainault)
- Grand-Place, Brussels
- Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia
- Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Historic Centre of Brugge
Facts
Location
Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between France and the Netherlands
Capital
Brussels
Population
10,392,226 (July 2007 est.)
Belgium Regions
Belgium consists of 10 provinces (French: provinces, singular - province; Dutch: provincies, singular - provincie) and 3 regions* (French: regions; Dutch: gewesten)
Antwerpen, Brabant Wallon, Brussels* (Bruxelles), Flanders*, Hainaut, Liege, Limburg, Luxembourg, Namur, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaams-Brabant, Wallonia*, West-Vlaanderen note: as a result of the 1993 constitutional revision that furthered devolution into a federal state, there are now three levels of government (federal, regional, and linguistic community) with a complex division of responsibilities
Climate
temperate; mild winters, cool summers; rainy, humid, cloudy
Ethnic groups
Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11%
Religions
Roman Catholic 75%, other (includes Protestant) 25%
Languages
Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%, legally bilingual (Dutch and French)
Government type
federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Background
Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830; it was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II. The country prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU. Tensions between the Dutch-speaking Flemings of the north and the French-speaking Walloons of the south have led in recent years to constitutional amendments granting these regions formal recognition and autonomy.
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