Belgium

Maryland is closest with a land area of 25 000 km² compared to 30 500 km² for Belgium. West Virginia is the closest bigger state with 62 000 km².

66.5 Kms

On cruse ships it takes 6 and a half hours, but it takes 8 and a half hours just regularly sailing a boat from Italy to Turkey! :)

Belgian proofmarks, year of manufacture, barrel inscription. == ==

Federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy

Belgium has a King - Albert II and a Prime Minister.

5 major cities in Denmark are:-

# Copenhagen (the capital) # Odense # Arhus # Alborg # Esbjerg

For a lot of reasons. First of all, being a pretty young country, we have been part of many different countries before. We were part of France for a very long time, or at least a part of Belgium was. We were under the influence of the spanish, the dutch, the austrians and the germans. All that is reflected in our culture.

You can find magnificent pieces of architecture in Belgium. Go the Brussels, Antwerp, Gent, Bruges for example. Their influence in European History is important and has not gone unnoticed. Bruges as one of the greatest commercial centers of the middle ages and Antwerp as a cultural center ( great writers, painters, political people or religious people have stopped and lived there).

And if history does not interest you, don't worry. We have great food, great beer, great cheese, great chocolate great fries and great waffles. Yes, you don't come to Belgium and eat very healty.

But it's up to the people. You can find a lot of treasures in every country you go. You just need to look in up.

Because they hardly had them traditionally. Before about 1980, almost all Belgians were white Catholic Europeans who had lived together for centuries, so no ethnic differences there. They had and still have however a great culture and language barrier that they have never overcome: that between Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons.

Tensions between these two language groups have led to an effective split-up between their homelands, called Flanders and Wallonia who both have their own national governments. Political parties have been totally split up into separate Walloon and Flemish groups who often even don't cooperate on issues.

Ethnic problems have risen and largely remain unsolved to this day with the arrival since the 1970s of great numbers of Muslim immigrants from Turkey and Morocco. That has led to the rise of a Flemish party that is unashamedly anti-Muslim. The rise on the other hand of the number of fundamentalist Islam followers has only fed anti-Muslim feelings. As in several other European countries, this is a ethnic problem that has remained unresolved to this day.

Belgium has 10.666.866 residents.

60% speak dutch(so are from Flanders)

= 6.400.120

April 2001, it was the first country to legalize same-sex marriage.

'Belgian' isn't a language. in Belgium, the northern part speaks dutch, the southern part speaks french.

the dutch word for godmother is 'meter'

the dutch word for godfather is 'peter'

Belgium shares borders with France, Netherlands, Germany and Luxemburg. The one with France is the largest, and the one with the Netherlands is certainly longer than the one with Germany Melos Antropon!

Belgium: Brussel

Luxembourg: Luxembourg

Netherlands: Amsterdam

http://www.sizeofbelgium.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.SquareKilometres

"Total: 30,528 sq km

Land: 30,278 sq km

Water: 250 sq km

Comparative: About the size of Maryland"

"For the non-metric readers, 30,528 km2 = 11787 square miles"

Bulgaria and their previous rulers, the Ottoman Empire, both fought on the side of the Central Powers in World War I. Bulgaria hoped to get help from Germany and Austria in regaining territory lost in the Balkan Wars. Instead they lost still more land to neighboring countries.

There is no language called Belgian.

In Belgium they speak Dutch, French or German.

Dutch: Welkom

French: Bienvenu

German: Willkomen

Belgium is one of the wealthiest countries in Europe (and therefor the world). However it has a significant difference between its two states (Belgium being a federation of two states). The northern state of Flanders being wealthier than its southern neighbor Wallonia.

About 10 hours. From Dallas to Belgium is what I am talking.

Belgium's chief exports are iron and steel (semi-finished and manufactured), chemicals, textiles, machinery, road vehicles and parts, nonferrous metals, diamonds, and foodstuffs. Its imports are general manufactures, foodstuffs, diamonds, metals and metal ores, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, clothing, machinery, electrical equipment, and motor vehicles. Belgium is partnered with Luxembourg in the BLEU.

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Amsterdam, NL to Berlin, Germany 661 km - about 6 hours 15 mins

Yes, the UK is a lots bigger than Belgium. UK is 244,820 sq km. Belgium is only 30,528 sq km by comparison.

Across the Canal there is the UK, with Ramsgate across Belgium.

They didn't join the EU. They were one of the original six founding states along with France, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Luxembourg.