Brussels

Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of comprising 19 municipalities, including the , which is the capital of Belgium.
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  • Type: region of Belgium with 1,250,000 residents
  • Description: city and region of Belgium
  • Also known as: “Brussels Region”, “Brussels-Capital”, “Brussels-Capital Region”, and “Region of Brussels-Capital”
  • Neighbors:
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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 Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens: a nude boy urinating into the fountain's basin.

Square
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The or Grote Markt is the central square of Brussels, 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 or Bread House building, housing the .

Museum
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The are a group of art museums in Brussels, 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 and the .

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 Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the , , and .

Brussels

Latitude
50.8488° or 50° 50′ 56″ north
Longitude
4.3466° or 4° 20′ 48″ east
Population
1,250,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Abbreviation
“BRU”
Open location code
9F26R8XW+GM
Geo­Names ID
6693370
Wiki­data ID
Q240
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Brussels” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Brussèl”
  • Adyghe: “Брюссел”
  • Afrikaans: “Brusselse Hoofstedelike Gewes”
  • Albanian: “Brukseli”
  • Albanian: “Rajoni i Kryeqytetit të Brukselit”
  • Amharic: “ብሩክሴል”
  • Arabic: “إقليم بروكسل العاصمة”
  • Arabic: “بروكسل”
  • Aragonese: “Rechión de Bruselas-Capital”
  • Armenian: “Բրյուսել”
  • Assamese: “ব্ৰুচেলছ”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de Bruxeles-Capital”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de Bruxeles”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brüssel paytaxt vilayəti”
  • Balinese: “Brussel (kota)”
  • Balinese: “Brussel”
  • Bambara: “Brussels”
  • Bashkir: “Брюссель баш ҡала регионы”
  • Basque: “Brusela-Hiriburua eskualdea”
  • Belarusian: “Брусельскі сталічны рэгіён”
  • Belarusian: “Брусэльскі сталічны рэгіён”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাসেল্‌স”
  • Betawi: “Bresèl”
  • Bhojpuri: “ब्रसेल्स”
  • Bosnian: “Regija glavnog grada Bruxellesa”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Brusel-Kêr-benn”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Brusel-Kêrbenn”
  • Bulgarian: “Брюксел”
  • Bulgarian: “Столичен регион Брюксел”
  • Burmese: “ဘရပ်ဆဲလ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Brussel·les-Capital”
  • Cebuano: “Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Central Bikol: “Brussels”
  • Central Kurdish: “بروکسێل”
  • Chinese: “Brussels”
  • Chinese: “布魯塞爾首都大區”
  • Chinese: “布鲁塞尔首都大区”
  • Cornish: “Brusselas”
  • Corsican: “Regione di Brusselle-Capitale”
  • Corsican: “Regione di Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Croatian: “Regija glavnoga grada Bruxellesa”
  • Czech: “Bruselský region”
  • Danish: “Bruxelles”
  • Danish: “Region Bruxelles”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bruksel”
  • Dutch: “BHG”
  • Dutch: “Brussel-Hoofdstad”
  • Dutch: “Brussels Gewest”
  • Dutch: “Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروكسيل”
  • Esperanto: “Brusela Ĉefurba Regiono”
  • Estonian: “Pealinna Brüsseli piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Bryssel”
  • Finnish: “Brysselin alue”
  • Finnish: “Brysselin pääkaupunkialue”
  • French: “Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • French: “BXL”
  • French: “Région bruxelloise”
  • French: “Région de Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Gagauz: “Brüksel”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Bruxelas-Capital”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Bruxelas”
  • Ganda: “Brussels”
  • Georgian: “ბრიუსელი”
  • Georgian: “ბრიუსელის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Brüssel-Hauptstadt”
  • German: “Brüssel-Region”
  • German: “Hauptstadtregion Brüssel”
  • German: “Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt”
  • Greek: “Περιοχή των Βρυξελλών”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રસેલ્સ-કેપિટલ પ્રદેશ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રસેલ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Briksèl”
  • Hebrew: “בריסל”
  • Hindi: “ब्रुसेल्स राजधानी प्रदेश”
  • Hindi: “ब्रुसेल्स”
  • Hungarian: “Brüsszel fővárosi régió”
  • Hungarian: “Brüsszeli Régió”
  • Icelandic: “Brussel-höfuðborgarsvæðið”
  • Icelandic: “Brussel”
  • Ido: “Bruxel”
  • Iloko: “Bruselas”
  • Inari Sami: “Bryssel”
  • Indonesian: “Brussel”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Ibu Kota Brussel”
  • Ingush: “Брюссельский столичный регион”
  • Interlingua: “Brussel”
  • Interlingue: “Bruxelles”
  • Irish: “An Bhruiséil”
  • Italian: “Regione di Brusselle-Capitale”
  • Italian: “Regione di Bruxelles-Capitale”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Brussels”
  • Japanese: “ブリュッセル”
  • Japanese: “ブリュッセル首都圏地域”
  • Japanese: “小パリ”
  • Japanese: “欧州の首都”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಸೆಲ್ಸ್”
  • Karekare: “Brussels”
  • Kashubian: “Bruksela”
  • Kazakh: “Брюссель”
  • Kölsch: “Brüßßel”
  • Komi: “Брюссель”
  • Korean: “브뤼셀 수도 지역”
  • Korean: “브뤼셀”
  • Kurdish: “Bruksel”
  • Ladino: “Bruselas”
  • Latin: “Bruxellae Capitalis”
  • Latin: “Bruxellae”
  • Latin: “Regio Bruxellana Capitalis”
  • Latvian: “Briseles galvaspilsētas reģions”
  • Limburgan: “Brussels Hoofsjtaejelik Gewes”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bruxelles”
  • Lithuanian: “Briuselio-sostinės regionas”
  • Lojban: “brusel.”
  • Low German: “Brussels Heufdstedelijk Gewest”
  • 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-राजधानी प्रदेश”
  • 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 Bokmål: “Bryssel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hovudstadsregionen Brussel”
  • Norwegian: “Brussel”
  • Nyanja: “Brussels”
  • Obolo: “Bruxelles”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Region de Brussèlas Capitala”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Region de Brussèlas-Capitala”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܪܘܟܣܠ”
  • Oriya: “ବୃସେଲ”
  • Oriya: “ବୃସେଲ୍ସ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰੂਸਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਸਲਜ਼”
  • Persian: “بروکسل”
  • Picard: “Brusselle”
  • Picard: “Règion Brusselle-Capitale”
  • Piemontese: “Region ëd Brussel”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Brussels”
  • Polish: “Region Stołeczny Brukseli”
  • Portuguese: “Bruxelas-Capital”
  • Portuguese: “Bruxelas”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Bruxelas-Capital”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Bruxelas”
  • Pushto: “بروکسل”
  • Romanian: “Bruxelles-Capitală”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Bruxelles-Capitală”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Bruxelles”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Capitalei Bruxelles”
  • Russia Buriat: “Брюссель”
  • Russian: “Брюссельский столичный регион”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱨᱟᱥᱮᱞᱥ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Brussel”
  • Scots: “BE-BRU”
  • Scots: “Brussels Region”
  • Scots: “Brussels-Caipital Region”
  • Scots: “Brussels-Caipital”
  • Scots: “Brussels”
  • Scots: “BXL”
  • Scots: “Region o Brussels-Caipital”
  • Serbian: “Бриселски регион”
  • Serbian: “Регион главног града Брисела”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Regija glavnog grada Bruxellesa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Regija glavnoga grada Bruxellesa”
  • Shona: “Brussels”
  • Sicilian: “Bruxelles”
  • Silesian: “Bruksela”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රසල්ස්-අගනුවර කලාපය, බෙල්ජියම”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රසල්ස්-කැපිටල් කලාපය”
  • Slovak: “Región Brusel-hlavné mesto”
  • Slovenian: “Bruselj”
  • Slovenian: “Regija Bruselj – glavno mesto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بروکسل”
  • Spanish: “Bruselas-Capital”
  • Spanish: “Región de Bruselas-Capital”
  • Spanish: “Región de Bruselas”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Brusilu”
  • Swahili: “Brussels”
  • Swedish: “BE-BRU”
  • Swedish: “Bryssel”
  • Swedish: “Brysselregionen”
  • Swiss German: “Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt”
  • Tajik: “Брюссел”
  • Tamil: “பிரசெல்சு”
  • Tamil: “பிரஸ்செல்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரஸ்ஸல்-கேப்பிடல் பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Брюссель башкала төбәге”
  • Telugu: “బ్రసెల్స్-రాజధాని ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “บรัสเซลส์”
  • Tibetan: “པུའུ་ལུའུ་སེལ​།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt”
  • Turkish: “Brüksel Başkent Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Brüksel”
  • 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: “Brussele”
  • Walloon: “Grand Brussele”
  • Walloon: “Grande Brussele”
  • Walloon: “Redjon d’ Brussele-Capitåle”
  • Walloon: “Redjon d’ Brussele-Mwaisse-Veye”
  • Walloon: “Redjon d’ Brussele”
  • Walloon: “Redjon d’Brussele”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bruselas”
  • Welsh: “Rhanbarth Brwsel-Prifddinas”
  • Western Frisian: “Brusselsk Haadstedsk Gewest”
  • Western Frisian: “Brusselsk Haadsteedlik Gewest”
  • Western Frisian: “Stêdsregio Brussel”
  • 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”
  • Zeeuws: “Brussels Oôdstedelijk Hewest”
  • “20e”
  • “04000”
  • “BE-BRU”
  • “Bruxelles”
  • “BXL”
  • “Q240”
  • “ब्रसेल्स”

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