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Places of Interest

Highlights include Manneken Pis and Grand Place.

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is a landmark 55.5 cm bronze fountain sculpture in central , Belgium, depicting a puer mingens: a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin.

Square
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The or Grote Markt is the central of , Belgium. It is surrounded by opulent Baroque guildhalls of the former Guilds of Brussels and two larger edifices; the city's Flamboyant , and the neo-Gothic King's House or Bread House building, containing the .

Museum
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The are a group of art museums in , Belgium. They are part of the institutions of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office and consist of six museums: the , the , the , the Modern Museum, the Antoine Wiertz Museum and the Constantin Meunier Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brussels and Pentagon.

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is the capital of and one of the three administrative regions within the country, together with and . Apart from its role within its country, it is also an internationally important city, hosting numerous international institutions, and in particular the headquarters of NATO and the core institutions of the European Union.

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The is the historical center of . It derives its name from the pentagonal shape of the inner beltway that surrounds the area. The of Brussels encompasses many charming and beautiful attractions, with deeply ornate buildings on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt, and a fish-and-crustacean overdose of St.

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Schaerbeek or is one of the 19 municipalities of the , Belgium. Located in the north-eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the , , and .

Brussels Capital

  • Also known as: “BE1”, “Brussels-Capital Region”, “Brussels-Capitol”, “Bruxelas”, “Region of Brussels-Capital”, and “布魯塞爾-首都大區”
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude
50.8533° or 50° 51′ 12″ north
Longitude
4.3514° or 4° 21′ 5″ east
Population
1,250,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Open location code
9F26V932+8H
Geo­Names ID
2800867
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Brussels Capital” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Brussèl”
  • Adyghe: “Брюссел”
  • Afrikaans: “Brusselse Hoofstedelike Gewes”
  • Albanian: “Brukseli”
  • Amharic: “ብሩክሴል”
  • Arabic: “بروكسل”
  • Aragonese: “Rechión de Bruselas-Capital”
  • Armenian: “Բրյուսել”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de Bruxeles-Capital”
  • Balinese: “Brussel”
  • Bambara: “Brussels”
  • Bashkir: “Брюссель баш ҡала регионы”
  • Basque: “Brusela-Hiriburua eskualdea”
  • Belarusian: “Брусельскі сталічны рэгіён”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাসেল্‌স”
  • Bhojpuri: “ब्रसेल्स”
  • Bosnian: “Regija glavnog grada Bruxellesa”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Brusel-Kêrbenn”
  • Bulgarian: “Брюксел”
  • Burmese: “ဘရပ်ဆဲလ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Brussel·les Capital”
  • Cebuano: “Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Central Bikol: “Brussels”
  • Central Kurdish: “بروکسێل”
  • Chinese: “布鲁塞尔首都大区”
  • Cornish: “Brusselas”
  • Corsican: “Regione di Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Croatian: “Regija glavnoga grada Bruxellesa”
  • Czech: “Bruselský region”
  • Danish: “Region Bruxelles”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bruksel”
  • Dutch: “Brussel”
  • Dutch: “Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروكسيل”
  • Esperanto: “Brusela Ĉefurba Regiono”
  • Esperanto: “Bruselo”
  • Estonian: “Pealinna Brüsseli piirkond”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Brussels”
  • Finnish: “Brysselin pääkaupunkialue”
  • French: “Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • French: “Région Bruxelloise”
  • French: “Région de Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Gagauz: “Brüksel”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Bruxelas-Capital”
  • Ganda: “Brussels”
  • Georgian: “ბრიუსელის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt”
  • Greek: “Περιοχή των Βρυξελλών”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રસેલ્સ-કેપિટલ પ્રદેશ”
  • Haitian: “Briksèl”
  • Hebrew: “בריסל”
  • Hindi: “ब्रुसेल्स”
  • Hungarian: “Brüsszel fővárosi régió”
  • Icelandic: “Brussel”
  • Ido: “Bruxel”
  • Iloko: “Bruselas”
  • Inari Sami: “Bryssel”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Ibu Kota Brussel”
  • Ingush: “Брюссельский столичный регион”
  • Interlingua: “Brussel”
  • Interlingue: “Bruxelles”
  • Irish: “An Bhruiséil”
  • Italian: “Regione di Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Brussels”
  • Japanese: “ブリュッセル”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಸೆಲ್ಸ್”
  • Kashubian: “Bruksela”
  • Kazakh: “Брюссель”
  • Kölsch: “Brüßßel”
  • Komi: “Брюссель”
  • Korean: “브뤼셀”
  • Kurdish: “Bruksel”
  • Ladino: “Bruselas”
  • Latin: “Regio Bruxellana Capitalis”
  • Latvian: “Briseles galvaspilsētas reģions”
  • Limburgan: “Brussels Hoofsjtaejelik Gewes”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bruxelles”
  • Lithuanian: “Briuselio-sostinės regionas”
  • Lojban: “brusel.”
  • Low German: “Kuntrei vun de Hööftstadt Brüssel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Haaptstadregioun Bréissel”
  • Macedonian: “Брисел”
  • Malay: “Brussels”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രസൽസ്”
  • Maltese: “Reġjun ta‘ Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Manx: “Yn Vrussyl”
  • Maori: “Paruhi”
  • Marathi: “ब्रसेल्स”
  • Mazanderani: “بروکسل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brussels”
  • Minangkabau: “Daerah Ibu Kota Brussels”
  • Moksha: “Брюсэлонь пряошень регионць”
  • Mongolian: “Брюссель”
  • Nepali: “ब्रसेल्स राजधानी क्षेत्र”
  • Newari: “ब्रसेल्स”
  • Northern Frisian: “Regiuun Brüssel”
  • Northern Sami: “Bryssel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brussel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hovudstadsregionen Brussel”
  • Nyanja: “Brussels”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Region de Brussèlas Capitala”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܪܘܟܣܠ”
  • Oriya: “ବୃସେଲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰੂਸਲ”
  • Persian: “بروکسل”
  • Picard: “Brusselle”
  • Piemontese: “Region ëd Brussel”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Brussels”
  • Polish: “Region Stołeczny Brukseli”
  • Portuguese: “Bruxelas-Capital”
  • Pushto: “بروکسل”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Capitalei Bruxelles”
  • Russia Buriat: “Брюссель”
  • Russian: “Брюссельский столичный регион”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱨᱟᱥᱮᱞᱥ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Brussel”
  • Scots: “Brussels-Caipital Region”
  • Serbian: “Регион главног града Брисела”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Regija glavnoga grada Bruxellesa”
  • Shona: “Brussels”
  • Sicilian: “Bruxelles”
  • Silesian: “Bruksela”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රසල්ස්-කැපිටල් කලාපය”
  • Slovak: “Región Brusel-hlavné mesto”
  • Slovenian: “Regija Bruselj-glavno mesto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بروکسل”
  • Spanish: “Bruselas”
  • Spanish: “Región de Bruselas-Capital”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Brusilu”
  • Swahili: “Brussels”
  • Swedish: “Brysselregionen”
  • Swiss German: “Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt”
  • Tajik: “Брюссел”
  • Tamil: “பிரஸ்செல்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Брүсил башкала төбәге”
  • Telugu: “బ్రసెల్స్-రాజధాని ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “บรัสเซลส์”
  • Tibetan: “པུའུ་ལུའུ་སེལ​།”
  • Turkish: “Brüksel Başkent Bölgesi”
  • Uighur: “Bryussél”
  • Ukrainian: “Брюссельський столичний регіон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Brüssel”
  • Urdu: “برسلز”
  • Uzbek: “Brussel Poytaxt Regioni”
  • Venetian: “Rejon de Bruxel-Capitałe”
  • Veps: “Brüssel‘”
  • Vietnamese: “Bruxelles”
  • Vlaams: “Brussels Oofdstedelik Gewest”
  • Volapük: “Ziläk Cifazifa: Brussel”
  • Walloon: “Redjon d’ Brussele”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bruselas”
  • Welsh: “Rhanbarth Brwsel-Prifddinas”
  • Western Frisian: “Brusselsk Haadsteedlik Gewest”
  • Western Mari: “Брюссель”
  • Western Panjabi: “برسلز”
  • Wu Chinese: “布鲁塞尔-首都大区”
  • Yakut: “Брүссель”
  • Yiddish: “בריסל ראיאן”
  • Yoruba: “Brussels”
  • Yue Chinese: “布魯塞爾首都區”
  • Zeeuws: “Brussel”

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