Brussels
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Region o Belgium | |
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![]() A collage wi several views o Brussels, Tap: View o the Northren Quarter business destrict, 2nt left: Floral carpet event in the Grand Place, 2nt richt: Brussels Ceety Haw an Mont des Arts aurie, 3rd: Cinquantenaire Pairk, 4t left: Manneken Pis, 4t middle: St. Michael an St. Gudula Cathedral, 4t richt: Congress Column, Bottom: Ryal Palace o Brussels | |
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Coordinates: 50°51′N 4°21′E / 50.850°N 4.350°ECoordinates: 50°51′N 4°21′E / 50.850°N 4.350°E | |
Kintra | Belgium |
Settled | c. 580 |
Foondit | 979 |
Region | 18 June 1989 |
Municipalities | Leet
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Govrenment | |
• Executive | Govrenment o the Brussels-Caipital Region |
• Govrening parties (2014–19) | PS, FDF, cdH; Open Vld, sp.a, CD&V |
• Meenister-Preses | Rudi Vervoort (PS) |
• Legislatur | Pairlament o the Brussels-Caipital Region |
• Speaker | Charles Picqué (PS) |
Area | |
• Region/Ceety | 161.38 km2 (62.2 sq mi) |
Elevation | 13 m (43 ft) |
Population (1 Januar 2019)[4] | |
• Region/Ceety | 1,208,542 |
• Density | 7442/km2 (19,270/sq mi) |
• Metro | 2,500,000 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
ISO 3166 | BE-BRU |
Website | be.brussels |
Brussels (French: Bruxelles, pronoonced [bʁysɛl] ( listen); Dutch: Brussel, pronoonced [ˈbrʏsəl] (
listen)), offeecially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Caipital Region[5][6] (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch:
Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (help·info)), is the de facto caipital ceety o the European Union (EU) an the lairgest urban aurie in Belgium.[7][8] It comprises 19 municipalities, includin the City of Brussels proper, which is the constitutional caipital o Belgium, the seat o the French Community o Belgium an o the Flemish Community.[9]
Syne the end o the Seicont Warld War, Brussels haes been a main centre for internaitional politics. Hostin principal EU institutions[10] as well as the heidquarters o the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the ceety haes become the polyglot hame o numerous internaitional organisations, politeecians, diplomats an ceevil servants.[11]
Main airticle: Leet o municipalities o the Brussels-Caipital Region |
The 19 municipalities (communes) o the Brussels-Caipital Region are poleetical subdiveesions wi individual responsibilities for the handlin o local level duties, such as law enforcement an the upkeep o schuils an roads athin its borders.[12][13] Municipal admieenistration is an aa conductit bi a mayor, a cooncil, an an executive.[13]
In 1831, Belgium wis dividit intae 2,739 municipalities, includin the 19 in the Brussels-Caipital Region.[14] Unlike maist o the municipalities in Belgium, the anes locatit in the Brussels-Caipital Region wur no merged wi ithers durin mergers occurrin in 1964, 1970, an 1975.[14] Housomeivver, several municipalities ootside o the Brussels-Caipital Region hae been merged wi the Ceety o Brussels throughoot its history includin Laeken, Haren, an Neder-Over-Heembeek, which wur merged intae the Ceety o Brussels in 1921.[15]
Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Belgium |
Brussels is twinned wi the follaein ceeties: