Brussels
Brussels is the capital of Belgium and one of the three administrative regions within the country, together with Flanders and Wallonia. 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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Pentagon and Brussels Airport.
Schaarbeek
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Centre and Molenbeek and surroundings.
West Brussels
The West contains the extensive western suburbs of Brussels.North-East
The North-East of Brussels is a residential and…
Places of Interest
Highlights: Manneken Pis and Grand Place.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Government office
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anderlecht and Ixelles-Elsene.
Ixelles-Elsene
Town
Saint-Gilles
Town
Brussels
- Type: City with 194,000 residents
- Description: municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region and capital of Belgium
- Also known as: “an Bhruiséil”, “Brucellae”, “Bruiséil”, “Bruselas Lakanbalen”, “Bruselj (mesto)”, “Brussel (kommune)”, “Brussel-stad”, “Brussele-Veye”, “Brusselli”, “Brussels (municipality)”, “Brussels Ceety”, “Brussels City”, “Brüsszel város”, “Bruxelles - Brussel”, “Bruxelles (municipalitate)”, “Bruxelles-Ville”, “BXL”, “Cità di Brusselle”, “Cità di Bruxelles”, “çitæ de Bruxelles”, “Città di Brusselle”, “City of Brussels”, “Lakanbalen ning Bruselas”, “ma tomo Puseli”, “Stad Brussel”, “Stêd Brussel”, “Urbs Brucellae”, “Urbs Bruxellae”, “Veye d’Brussele”, “Πόλη των Βρυξελλών”, “Бруссел”, “Брүссел”, “برسل شہر”, “ब्रसल”, “ब्रास्लस”, “ब्रुसेल”, “ब्रुसेल्स”, “ब्रूसेल”, “ப்ரஸல்ஸ்”, “ப்ரஸ்ஸஸ்”, “빌 드 브뤼셀”, “布鲁塞尔城”, and “布鲁塞尔市”
- Historically known as: “比律悉”
- Postal code: 1000
- Neighbors: Grimbergen, Molenbeek and surroundings, Schaarbeek, Vilvoorde, and Zaventem
- Categories: big city, European City, municipality of Belgium, federal capital, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital, Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.8467° or 50° 50′ 48″ north
Longitude
4.3525° or 4° 21′ 9″ east
Population
194,000
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
IATA airport code
BRU
UN/LOCODE
BE BRU
Open location code
9F26R9W2+MX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Adyghe to Zulu—“Brussels” goes by many names.
- Adyghe: “Брюссел”
- Afrikaans: “Brussel”
- Albanian: “Brukseli”
- Amharic: “ብሩክሴል ከተማ”
- Arabic: “بروكسل”
- Arabic: “مدينة بروكسل”
- Aragonese: “Bruselas”
- Armenian: “Բրյուսել”
- Arpitan: “Brussèla”
- Arpitan: “Brussèles”
- Asturian: “Bruseles”
- Asturian: “Bruxeles”
- Avaric: “Брюссель”
- Avaric: “Буруссел”
- Aymara: “Brussel”
- Azerbaijani: “Brüssel”
- Balinese: “Brussels”
- Bambara: “Brussels”
- Bashkir: “Брюссель”
- Basque: “Brusela”
- Bavarian: “Brissl”
- Belarusian: “Брусель”
- Belarusian: “Брусэль”
- Bengali: “ব্রাসেলস শহর”
- Bengali: “ব্রাসেলস”
- Bhojpuri: “ब्रसेल्स शहर”
- Bislama: “Brussels”
- Bosnian: “Brisel”
- Bosnian: “Bruxelles”
- Breton: “Brusel”
- Bulgarian: “Брюксел”
- Burmese: “ဘရပ်ဆဲလ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Brusel·les”
- Catalan: “Brussel·les”
- Cebuano: “Bruselas”
- Central Kurdish: “شاری بروکسێل”
- Chavacano: “Bruselas”
- Chechen: “Бруссель”
- Chechen: “Брюссель”
- Chinese: “布魯塞爾”
- Chinese: “布鲁塞尔”
- Church Slavic: “Брюѯєль”
- Chuvash: “Брюссель”
- Cornish: “Brusselas”
- Corsican: “Bruxelles”
- Crimean Tatar: “Brüksel”
- Croatian: “Bruxelles”
- Croatian: “Grad Bruxelles”
- Czech: “Brusel”
- Dagbani: “Brussels”
- Danish: “Bruxelles”
- Danish: “Bryssel”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bruksel”
- Dutch: “Brussel”
- Eastern Mari: “Брюссель”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بروكسل”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة بروكسيل”
- Erzya: “Брюссель ош”
- Esperanto: “Brukselo”
- Esperanto: “Bruselo”
- Estonian: “Brüssel”
- Ewe: “Brussels”
- Extremaduran: “Brusselas”
- Faroese: “Brussel”
- Fiji Hindi: “Brussels”
- Finnish: “Bryssel”
- Finnish: “Brysselin kaupunki”
- French: “Bruxelles”
- French: “Ville de Bruxelles”
- Friulian: “Brussels”
- Fulah: “Brussels”
- Galician: “Bruxelas”
- Georgian: “ბრიუსელი”
- German: “Brüssel”
- German: “Stadt Brüssel”
- Gothic: “𐌱𐍂𐌿𐍃𐌴𐌻”
- Gothic: “𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍃”
- Greek: “Βρυξέλλες”
- Guarani: “Vuruséla”
- Gujarati: “બ્રસેલ્સ”
- Haitian: “Briksèl”
- Hakka Chinese: “Brussels Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pu-lû-set-ngì”
- Hausa: “Brussels”
- Hebrew: “בריסל”
- Hindi: “ब्रसेल्स”
- Hungarian: “Brüsszel”
- Icelandic: “Brussel”
- Ido: “Bruxel”
- Ido: “Bruxelles”
- Inari Sami: “Bryssel kaavpug”
- Indonesian: “Brusel”
- Indonesian: “Brussels”
- Indonesian: “Kota Brusel”
- Indonesian: “Kota Brussel”
- Interlingua: “Brussel”
- Interlingue: “Bruxelles”
- Irish: “An Bhruiséil”
- Irish: “Cathair na Bruiséile”
- Italian: “Bruxelles”
- Italian: “Città di Bruxelles”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Brosls”
- Japanese: “ブリュッセル”
- Japanese: “ブリュッセル市”
- Javanese: “Brusel”
- Javanese: “Brussel”
- Javanese: “Brussél”
- Jèrriais: “Brusselle”
- Kabardian: “Брюсел”
- Kabiyè: “Prukisɛɛlɩ”
- Kabyle: “Brussel”
- Kabyle: “Bruxelles”
- Kalaallisut: “Bruxelles”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಸೆಲ್ಸ್”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಸ್ಸೆಲ್ಸ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Bryussel”
- Kashubian: “Bruksela”
- Kazakh: “Брюссель”
- Kirghiz: “Брюссель”
- Komering: “Brussel”
- Komi: “Брюссель”
- Kongo: “Bruxelles”
- Korean: “브뤼셀”
- Korean: “브뤼셀시”
- Korean: “브류쎌”
- Kurdish: “Bruksel”
- Ladino: “Bruselas”
- Latin: “Bruxellae”
- Latvian: “Brisele”
- Ligurian: “Bruxelles”
- Limburgan: “Brussel”
- Lingala: “Bruxelles”
- Literary Chinese: “布魯塞爾”
- Lithuanian: “Briuselis”
- Livvi: “Br’ussel’u”
- Low German: “Brussel”
- Low German: “Brüssel”
- Luxembourgish: “Bréissel”
- Macedonian: “Брисел”
- Macedonian: “Град Брисел”
- Malagasy: “Brussel”
- Malay: “Brussel”
- Malay: “Brussels”
- Malayalam: “ബ്രസൽസ് നഗരം”
- Maltese: “Brussell”
- Maori: “Paruhi”
- Marathi: “ब्रसेल्स”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Brussel”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Brussels”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brussels Chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Kota Brussels”
- Mingrelian: “ბრიუსელი”
- Moksha: “Брюсэль”
- Mongolian: “Брюссель”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بروكسيل”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بريكسيل”
- Nauru: “Brussels”
- Neapolitan: “Bruxelles”
- Nepali: “ब्रसेल्स”
- Northern Frisian: “Brussel”
- Northern Frisian: “Stääd Brüssel”
- Northern Luri: “بروگسل”
- Northern Sami: “Bryssel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brussel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brussel”
- Norwegian: “Brussel”
- Novial: “Bruxelles”
- Nyanja: “Brussels”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brussèlas”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܪܘܟܣܠ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brysel”
- Ossetian: “Брюссель”
- Pampanga: “Bruselas”
- Panjabi: “ਬਰੱਸਲਸ”
- Papiamento: “Brusélas”
- Persian: “بروکسل”
- Persian: “شهر بروکسل”
- Picard: “Brusselle”
- Piemontese: “Brussel”
- Polish: “Bruksela”
- Portuguese: “Bruxelas”
- Portuguese: “Cidade de Bruxelas”
- Quechua: “Brussel”
- Romanian: “Bruxelles”
- Romanian: “Orașul Bruxelles”
- Romansh: “Brüssel”
- Russian: “Брюссель”
- Rusyn: “Брусел”
- Sakizaya: “pulisayl”
- Samogitian: “Briuselis”
- Sardinian: “Bruxelles”
- Sardinian: “Tzitade de Bruxelles”
- Saterfriesisch: “Brussel”
- Scots: “Ceety o Brussels”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Bhruiseal”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Bhruiseal”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bruiseal”
- Serbian: “Brisel”
- Serbian: “Брисел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grad Bruxelles”
- Shona: “Brussels”
- Sicilian: “Bruxelles”
- Silesian: “Bruksela”
- Sindhi: “بروسیلز”
- Sinhala: “බෲසෙල්ස්”
- Sinhala: “බ්රසල්ස්”
- Slovak: “Brusel”
- Slovenian: “Bruselj”
- Somali: “Boroksel”
- Somali: “Brussels”
- Spanish: “Bruselas”
- Sranan Tongo: “Brusilu”
- Swahili: “Brussels”
- Swedish: “Bryssel”
- Swiss German: “Brüssel”
- Tagalog: “Bruselas”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Bruselas”
- Tajik: “Брюссел”
- Talysh: “Brussel”
- Tamil: “பிரசெல்சு நகரம்”
- Tamil: “பிரெஸ்சல்ஸ் மாநகரம்”
- Tatar: “Брюссель”
- Telugu: “బ్రసెల్స్”
- Thai: “นครบรัสเซลส์”
- Thai: “บรัสเซลส์”
- Tok Pisin: “Brasels”
- Tok Pisin: “Brussels”
- Turkish: “Brüksel Şehri”
- Turkish: “Brüksel”
- Turkmen: “Brussel”
- Twi: “Brasɛls”
- Udmurt: “Брюссель”
- Uighur: “Bryussél”
- Uighur: “بريۇسسېل”
- Ukrainian: “Брюсель”
- Ukrainian: “Брюссель”
- Upper Sorbian: “Brüssel”
- Urdu: “برسلز شہر”
- Uzbek: “Brussel”
- Uzbek: “Bryussel”
- Venetian: “Borseła”
- Veps: “Brüssel‘”
- Veps: “Brüssel’”
- Vietnamese: “Bruxelles”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Bruxelles”
- Vlaams: “Brussel”
- Vlax Romani: “Brusel”
- Volapük: “Brussel”
- Võro: “Brüssel”
- Walloon: “Brussele”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bruselas”
- Welsh: “Brwsel”
- Welsh: “Dinas Brwsel”
- Western Armenian: “Պրիւքսէլ”
- Western Frisian: “Brussel”
- Western Mari: “Брюссель”
- Western Panjabi: “برسلز”
- Wolof: “Burusel”
- Wu Chinese: “布鲁塞尔”
- Yakut: “Брүссель”
- Yakut: “Бүрүссүөл”
- Yiddish: “בריסל”
- Yue Chinese: “布魯塞爾”
- Zeeuws: “Brussel”
- Zulu: “i-City of Brussels”
- “Brusel”
- “Bruselj”
- “ma tomo Puse”
- “ब्रसेल्स शहर”
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