Belgium

A low-lying country in the , Belgium sits at the crossroads of Western Europe. It marries the historical landmarks for which the continent is famous with spectacular modern architecture and rural idylls.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Brussels and Antwerp.

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is the capital of Belgium and one of the…

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is the capital of the in the region of in Belgium.

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is a city in in Belgium.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Flanders and Wallonia.

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is the Dutch-speaking, northern part…

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is the French-speaking southern part of Belgium.

Belgium

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Latitude of center
50.7° or 50° 42′ north
Longitude of center
4.55° or 4° 33′ east
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2802361
Wiki­data ID
Q31

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Belgium” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Бельгиа”
  • Achinese: “Bèlgia”
  • Adyghe: “Белгие”
  • Afrikaans: “België”
  • Akan: “Bɛlgyium”
  • Albanian: “Belgjika”
  • Albanian: “Belgjikë”
  • Amharic: “ቤልጄም”
  • Amharic: “ቤልጅግ”
  • Amis: “Belguim”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βελγική”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βέλγιον”
  • Angika: “बेल्जियम”
  • Arabic: “بلجيكا”
  • Aragonese: “Belchica”
  • Armenian: “Բելգիա”
  • Armenian: “Բելգիայի Թագավորություն”
  • Arpitan: “Bèlg·ique”
  • Arpitan: “Bèlgica”
  • Assamese: “বেলজিয়াম”
  • Asturian: “Bélxica”
  • Atayal: “Belguim”
  • Avaric: “Белген”
  • Avaric: “Бельгия”
  • Awadhi: “बेल्जियम”
  • Aymara: “Bilkiya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Belçika”
  • Balinese: “Belgia”
  • Balinese: “Bélgia”
  • Bambara: “Bɛliziki”
  • Bashkir: “Бельгия”
  • Basque: “Belgika”
  • Bavarian: “Bäigien”
  • Bavarian: “Bejgien”
  • Bavarian: “Belgien”
  • Belarusian: “Бельгія”
  • Belarusian: “Бэльгія”
  • Belarusian: “Бэльґія”
  • Bengali: “কোনিগ্রেচ বেলজিয়ান”
  • Bengali: “কোনিনক্রিজক বেলজিয়া”
  • Bengali: “বেলজিয়াম রাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “বেলজিয়াম”
  • Bengali: “বেলজিয়েন”
  • Bengali: “বেল্জিয়ম”
  • Betawi: “Bèlgi”
  • Bhojpuri: “बेलजियम”
  • Bhojpuri: “बेल्जियम राज”
  • Bhojpuri: “बेल्जियम”
  • Bhojpuri: “बेल्जीयम”
  • Bishnupriya: “বেলজিয়াম”
  • Bislama: “Beljiom”
  • Bosnian: “Belgija”
  • Breton: “Belgia”
  • Buginese: “Bélegiya”
  • Buginese: “Béllégia”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨙᨒᨙᨁᨗᨕ”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨙᨒᨛᨁᨗᨐ”
  • Bulgarian: “Белгия”
  • Bulgarian: “Кралство Белгия”
  • Burmese: “ဘယ်လ်ဂျီယမ်”
  • Burmese: “ဘယ်လ်ဂျီယမ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Carpathian Romani: “Belgija”
  • Catalan: “Bélgica”
  • Catalan: “Bèlgica”
  • Catalan: “Estat belga”
  • Catalan: “Regne de Bèlgica”
  • Cebuano: “Belhika”
  • Central Bikol: “Belhika”
  • Central Kanuri: “Belgium”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەلجیکا”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەلژیک”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەلژیکا”
  • Chamorro: “Belgika”
  • Chavacano: “Bélgica”
  • Chechen: “Бельги”
  • Cherokee: “ᏇᎵᏥᎥᎻ”
  • Chinese: “Bǐlìshí”
  • Chinese: “比利时”
  • Chinese: “比利时王国”
  • Chinese: “比利時”
  • Chinese: “比利時王國”
  • Church Slavic: “Бєлгїѥ”
  • Chuvash: “Бельги”
  • Cornish: “Pow Belg”
  • Corsican: “Belghju”
  • Corsican: “Belgica”
  • Corsican: “Belgiu”
  • Corsican: “Regnu di u Belghju”
  • Corsican: “Regnu di u Belgiu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Belçika”
  • Croatian: “Belgija”
  • Croatian: “Kraljevina Belgija”
  • Czech: “Belgické království”
  • Czech: “Belgie”
  • Dagbani: “Belgium”
  • Danish: “Belgien”
  • Danish: “Belgique”
  • Danish: “Kongeriget Belgien”
  • Danish: “Koninkrijk België”
  • Danish: “Royaume de Belgique”
  • Dhivehi: “ބެލްޖިއަމް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Belçıka”
  • Dinka: “Belgium”
  • Dotyali: “बेल्जियम”
  • Dutch: “Belgie”
  • Dutch: “België”
  • Dutch: “Koninkrijk België”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷེལ་ཇམ”
  • Dzongkha: “བེལ་ཇིཡམ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бельгий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلجيكا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلچيكا”
  • Emilian: “Bélgi”
  • Erzya: “Бельгия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Belgio”
  • Esperanto: “Belgujo”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝlando Belgio”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝlando Belgujo”
  • Estonian: “Belgia”
  • Ewe: “Belgium nutome”
  • Ewe: “Belgium”
  • Extremaduran: “Bélgica”
  • Farefare: “Belgium”
  • Faroese: “Belgia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Belgium”
  • Finnish: “Belgia”
  • Finnish: “Belgian kuningaskunta”
  • French: “Belg.”
  • French: “Belgique”
  • French: “Royaume de Belgique”
  • Friulian: “Belgjo”
  • Fulah: “Beljik”
  • Gagauz: “Belçika”
  • Gagauz: “Belgiya”
  • Galician: “Bélxica”
  • Ganda: “Bubirigi”
  • Georgian: “ბელგია”
  • German: “Belgien”
  • German: “Königreich Belgien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Belgium”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kingdom of Belgium”
  • Gilaki: “بلژيک”
  • Goan Konkani: “Belgium”
  • Goan Konkani: “बेल्जियम”
  • Gorontalo: “Belgia”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Βασίλειο του Βελγίου”
  • Greek: “Βέλγιο”
  • Guarani: “Véyhika”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Bèljik”
  • Gujarati: “બેલ્જિયમ”
  • Gujarati: “બેલ્જીયમ”
  • Gun: “Belgique”
  • Haitian: “Bèljik”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pí-li-sṳ̀”
  • Hausa: “Belgiyom”
  • Hausa: “Beljik”
  • Hawaiian: “Pelekiuma”
  • Hebrew: “בלגיה”
  • Hindi: “बेल्जियम”
  • Hungarian: “Belgium”
  • Iban: “Belgium”
  • Icelandic: “Belgía”
  • Ido: “Belgia”
  • Igbo: “Belgium”
  • Iloko: “Belgium”
  • Iloko: “Belhika”
  • Inari Sami: “Belgia kunâgâskodde”
  • Inari Sami: “Belgia”
  • Indonesian: “Belgia”
  • Ingush: “Бельги”
  • Interlingua: “Belgica”
  • Interlingue: “Belgia”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐲᓪᒋ”
  • Inupiaq: “Belgium”
  • Irish: “an Bheilg”
  • Irish: “An Bheilg”
  • Italian: “Belgio”
  • Italian: “Regno del Belgio”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Beljiom”
  • Japanese: “ベルギー”
  • Japanese: “ベルギー王国”
  • Japanese: “白耳義”
  • Javanese: “Bèlgi”
  • Javanese: “Belgia”
  • Javanese: “Bélgié”
  • Javanese: “Kraton Bélgié”
  • Jèrriais: “Belgique”
  • Kabardian: “Белгиэ”
  • Kabardian: “Белгэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Pɛliziki”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Béljika”
  • Kabyle: “Biljik”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Belgium”
  • Kalaallisut: “Belgia”
  • Kalmyk: “Бельҗмудин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಲ್ಜಿಯಂ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಲ್ಜಿಯಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Belgiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бельгия”
  • Karekare: “Beljiyòm”
  • Kashmiri: “بیلجِیَم”
  • Kashmiri: “بیٚلجیٖیَم”
  • Kashubian: “Belgijskô”
  • Kazakh: “Бельгия”
  • Khmer: “បែលស៊ិក”
  • Khmer: “បែលហ្សិក”
  • Khmer: “បែលហ្ស៉ិក”
  • Khmer: “បែលហ្ស៊ិក”
  • Kikuyu: “Ubelgiji”
  • Kildin Sami: “Бельгия”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ububiligi”
  • Kirghiz: “Бельгия”
  • Kölsch: “Belgien”
  • Kölsch: “Beljie”
  • Komering: “Belgia”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Белгия”
  • Komi: “Бельгия”
  • Kongo: “Belezi”
  • Korean: “벨기에 왕국”
  • Korean: “벨기에”
  • Korean: “벨기에왕국”
  • Korean: “벨지끄”
  • Kotava: “Belga”
  • Kurdish: “Belçîka”
  • Kurdish: “Belgiya”
  • Kusaal: “Belgium”
  • Ladin: “Belje”
  • Ladino: “Beljika”
  • Lao: “ເບວຢຽມ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເບລຢຽມ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດແບນຊິກ”
  • Latgalian: “Beļgeja”
  • Latin: “Belgia”
  • Latin: “Belgica”
  • Latin: “Regnum Belgiae”
  • Latin: “Regnum Belgicae”
  • Latvian: “Beļģija”
  • Lezghian: “Бельгия”
  • Ligurian: “Belgio”
  • Ligurian: “Bèlgio”
  • Limburgan: “Belsj”
  • Lingala: “Beleziki”
  • Lingala: “Bɛ́ljika”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Beljia”
  • Literary Chinese: “比利時”
  • Lithuanian: “Belgija”
  • Liv: “Beļgij”
  • Livvi: “Bel’gii”
  • Lojban: “beldjym”
  • Lojban: “gugdrbelgi”
  • Lombard: “Belgi”
  • Low German: “Belgie”
  • Low German: “België”
  • Low German: “Belgien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Belgiska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Belejiki”
  • Lule Sami: “Bælga gånågisrijkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Bælgga”
  • Lule Sami: “Bälga gånågisrijkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Bälgga”
  • Luxembourgish: “Belsch”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kinnekräich Belsch”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Belghia”
  • Macedonian: “Белгија”
  • Macedonian: “Кралство Белгија”
  • Madurese: “Belgia”
  • Maithili: “बेल्जियम”
  • Malagasy: “Belzika”
  • Malay: “Belgium”
  • Malayalam: “ബെല്‍ജിയം”
  • Malayalam: “ബെൽജിയം”
  • Maltese: “Belġju”
  • Maltese: “il-Belġju”
  • Maltese: “Renju tal-Belġju”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯦꯜꯖꯤꯌꯝ”
  • Manx: “Belg”
  • Manx: “y Velg”
  • Manx: “yn Velg”
  • Manx: “Yn Velg”
  • Maori: “Pehiamu”
  • Marathi: “बेल्जियम”
  • Mazanderani: “بلجیک”
  • Mazanderani: “بلژیک”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bī-lé-sì”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Belgie”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Belgien”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pe̍k-ní-gī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pí-lī-sî”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-pí-kok”
  • Minangkabau: “Belgia”
  • Mingrelian: “ბელგია”
  • Mirandese: “Bélgica”
  • Moksha: “Бэльгия”
  • Moksha: “Оцязорксшись Бельгия”
  • Mongolian: “Бельги”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بلجيكا”
  • Mossi: “Belgium”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߍߟߑߖ߭ߌߟߊ߫”
  • Nauru: “Belgium”
  • Nauru: “Berdjiyum”
  • Navajo: “Tábąąh Hóteelnii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Belge”
  • Neapolitan: “Bèlge”
  • Neapolitan: “Belgio”
  • Nepali: “बेल्जियम”
  • Newari: “बेल्जियम”
  • North Ndebele: “Bhelgium”
  • Northern Frisian: “Belgien/fe”
  • Northern Frisian: “Belgien”
  • Northern Luri: “بلجیک”
  • Northern Sami: “Belgia gonagasriika”
  • Northern Sami: “Belgia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Belgia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongeriket Belgia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belgia”
  • Norwegian: “Belgia”
  • Novial: “Belgia”
  • Nyanja: “Belgium”
  • Obolo: “Belidika”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Belgica”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Reialme de Belgica”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Reiaume de Belgica”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܠܓܝܟܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܠܓܝܩܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܶܠܓܺܝܩܶܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Belgice”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Belgium”
  • Oriya: “ବେଲଜିଅମ”
  • Oriya: “ବେଲଜିୟମ୍”
  • Oromo: “Beeljiyeem”
  • Ossetian: “Бельги”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဗယ်စီယံခမ်းထီ”
  • Paiwan: “Belgica”
  • Pali: “बेल्जियम”
  • Pampanga: “Belgika”
  • Pampanga: “Belgium”
  • Pampanga: “Belhika”
  • Pampanga: “Belika”
  • Pangasinan: “Belhika”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੈਲਜੀਅਮ ਦਾ ਰਾਜ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੈਲਜੀਅਮ”
  • Papiamento: “Bélgika”
  • Pedi: “Belgium”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Belgien”
  • Persian: “بلجیم”
  • Persian: “بلژیک”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Belgien”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Belgje”
  • Picard: “Bergike”
  • Picard: “Roéyôme Bergike”
  • Piemontese: “Belgi”
  • Piemontese: “Belgio”
  • Pipil: “Belgica”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Beljum”
  • Polish: “Belgia”
  • Polish: “Królestwo Belgii”
  • Pontic: “Βέλγιον”
  • Portuguese: “Bélgica”
  • Portuguese: “Reino da Bélgica”
  • Pushto: “بلجيم”
  • Pushto: “بیلجیم”
  • Pushto: “بېلجيم”
  • Pushto: “بېلجیم”
  • Quechua: “Bélgica”
  • Quechua: “Bilgasuyu”
  • Quechua: “Bilhika”
  • Quechua: “Wilhika”
  • Rakhine: “ဘယ်ဂျီယံ ဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Rakhine: “ဘယ်ဂျီယံ”
  • Romanian: “Belgia”
  • Romanian: “Regatul Belgiei”
  • Romansh: “Belgia”
  • Rundi: “Ububiligi”
  • Rundi: “Ububirigi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бельги”
  • Russian: “Belgique”
  • Russian: “Бельгия”
  • Russian: “Королевство Бельгия”
  • Rusyn: “Белґія”
  • Sakizaya: “Belguim”
  • Samoan: “Peleseuma”
  • Samogitian: “Belgėjė”
  • Sango: “Bêleze, Belezîki”
  • Sango: “Bêleze”
  • Sanskrit: “बेल्जियम”
  • Sanskrit: “बेल्जियम्”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱮᱞᱡᱤᱭᱚᱢ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱮᱞᱡᱤᱭᱟᱢ”
  • Sardinian: “Bèlgiu”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Belgien”
  • Scots: “Belgium”
  • Scots: “Kinrick o Belgium”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Bheilg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Bheilg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’Bheilg”
  • Serbian: “Belgija”
  • Serbian: “Белгија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Belgija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပႄႇၵျီႇယမ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Belgium”
  • Shona: “Beljium”
  • Shona: “Bherujyamu”
  • Sicilian: “Belgiu”
  • Sicilian: “Bergiu”
  • Silesian: “Belgijŏ”
  • Silesian: “Krōlestwo Belgije”
  • Sindhi: “بيلجيم”
  • Sinhala: “බෙල්ජියම”
  • Skolt Sami: “Belgia koonǥõskåʹdd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Belgia”
  • Slovak: “Belgické kráľovstvo”
  • Slovak: “Belgicko”
  • Slovenian: “Belgija”
  • Slovenian: “Kraljevina Belgija”
  • Somali: “Beljim”
  • Somali: “Biljam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلژیک”
  • South Ndebele: “I-Belgium”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Belgium”
  • Southern Sami: “Belgia”
  • Spanish: “Bélgica”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Bélgica”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Belgikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵍⵊⵉⴽⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Bélgia”
  • Swahili: “Ubelgiji”
  • Swati: “IBhelijiyamu”
  • Swedish: “Belgien”
  • Swiss German: “Belgie”
  • Swiss German: “Belgien”
  • Tachelhit: “Bljika”
  • Tagalog: “Belgium”
  • Tagalog: “Belhika”
  • Tahitian: “Peretita”
  • Tajik: “Белгия”
  • Talysh: “Belcikə”
  • Talysh: “Belçikə”
  • Tamil: “பெல்சியம்”
  • Tamil: “பெல்ஜிய பேரரசு”
  • Tamil: “பெல்ஜியம்”
  • Taroko: “Belguim”
  • Tatar: “Бельгия”
  • Telugu: “బెల్జియం”
  • Tetum: “Béljika”
  • Thai: “เบลเยียม”
  • Thai: “เบลเยี่ยม”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเบลเยียม”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเบลเยี่ยม”
  • Thai: “ราชอาณาจักรเบลเยียม”
  • Thai: “ราชอาณาจักรเบลเยี่ยม”
  • Tibetan: “པེར་ཅིན།”
  • Tibetan: “པེར་ཅིན”
  • Tibetan: “བེལ་ཇི་ཡམ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቤልጀም”
  • Tigrinya: “ቤልጄም”
  • Tok Pisin: “Beljiam”
  • Tok Pisin: “Belsum”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pelesiume”
  • Tsonga: “Belgium”
  • Tumbuka: “Belgium”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بلجيكيا”
  • Turkish: “Belçika Krallığı”
  • Turkish: “Belçika”
  • Turkmen: “Belgiýa”
  • Twi: “Belgium”
  • Twi: “Bɛlgyiom”
  • Twi: “Ɔman Belgium”
  • Udmurt: “Бельгия”
  • Uighur: “بېلگىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Бельгія”
  • Ukrainian: “Бельґія”
  • Ukrainian: “Королівство Бельгія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Belgiska”
  • Urdu: “بلجئیم”
  • Urdu: “بیلجیئم”
  • Urdu: “بیلجیم”
  • Urdu: “مملکت بیلجیئم”
  • Uzbek: “Belgiya”
  • Venda: “Belgique”
  • Venetian: “Bèlzega”
  • Venetian: “Belzo”
  • Veps: “Bel’gii”
  • Vietnamese: “Bỉ”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Bỉ”
  • Vlaams: “België”
  • Vlaams: “Belgje”
  • Vlaams: “Keunienkryk België”
  • Vlax Romani: “Beljiya”
  • Volapük: “Belgän”
  • Võro: “Belgiä”
  • Walloon: “Beldjike”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Belhika”
  • Welsh: “Gwlad Belg”
  • Western Armenian: “Պելճիքա”
  • Western Balochi: “بلجیم”
  • Western Frisian: “België”
  • Western Frisian: “Belgje”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیلجیئم”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیلجیم”
  • Wolof: “Belsig”
  • Wolof: “Belsik”
  • Wu Chinese: “比利时”
  • Xhosa: “Bheljiyam”
  • Yakut: “Бельгия”
  • Yiddish: “בעלגיע”
  • Yoruba: “Bégíọ́mù”
  • Yoruba: “Bẹ́ljíọ̀m”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bégíọ́mù”
  • Yue Chinese: “Belgien”
  • Yue Chinese: “Belgique”
  • Yue Chinese: “Königreich Belgien”
  • Yue Chinese: “Koninkrijk België”
  • Yue Chinese: “Royaume de Belgique”
  • Yue Chinese: “比利時”
  • Zeeuws: “België”
  • Zeeuws: “Belhië”
  • Zhuang: “Bijliswz”
  • Zulu: “Belgium”
  • Zulu: “i-Belgium”
  • “BE”
  • “BEL”
  • “Belgikah”
  • “Belgikah Weyitlahtohkayotl”
  • “ma Pelije”
  • “ma Pesije”

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