Belgium
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Belgium is filled. The 4 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Belgium. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 50.5°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 2.2°E–6.7°E, 49.3°N–51.7°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Belgium. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
2 sources from Belgiumin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- European Commission press corner
- Le Soir
sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present
Official alerts
An official alerting source is connected for Belgium: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).
This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.
National legislature
Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Brussels, 2026-09-20Sunrise 7:25 AM · sunset 7:45 PM12h 20m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- BELuncited
- Driving side
- rightcited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vuncited
- Capital
- Brusselscited
- Official languages
- Dutch, French, Germancited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type Ecited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- belgium.be ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of Belgium: the UN's 2025 estimate is 11,941,781 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 9.5 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 11,941,781 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 11,858,610 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 9.5 more an hour (83,226 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 11,941,7812025
- GDP
- 725,466,462,8602025
- GDP per capita
- 60,7502025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 82.3 years2024
- Exports
- 75.5%2025
- Imports
- 77.5%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
Einigkeit macht stark
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) L’union fait la force
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) Also recorded in Dutch.
- Founded
- 1830
- National anthem
- The Brabançonne
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World Heritage Sites
16 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Béguinages in Flanders · inscribed 1998
- lifts on the old Canal du Centre · inscribed 1998
- Grand-Place · inscribed 1998
- Belfries of Belgium and France · inscribed 1999 · shared with France
- Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta · inscribed 2000
- Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes · inscribed 2000
- Tournai Cathedral · inscribed 2000
- Historic Centre of Brugge · inscribed 2000
- Museum Plantin-Moretus · inscribed 2005
- Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe · inscribed 2007 · shared with Albania, Austria and 15 more countries
- Stoclet Palace · inscribed 2009
- Major Mining Sites of Wallonia · inscribed 2012
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier · inscribed 2016 · shared with Argentina, Switzerland and 4 more countries
- Colonies of Benevolence · inscribed 2021 · shared with Netherlands
- The Great Spa Towns of Europe · inscribed 2021 · shared with Austria, Czechia and 4 more countries
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) · inscribed 2023 · shared with France
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 100listed as: fire department
- 100listed as: emergency medical services
- 101listed as: police
- 102listed as: Awel
- 112
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
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Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
EUR
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