A little information from Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a Western European country that is located on the North Sea and borders the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France. The country covers 30,528 km²[6] and has a population of more than 11.6 million inhabitants (more than 6.7 million in the Flemish Region, 3.7 million in the Walloon Region and 1.2 million in the Brussels-Capital Region ).[7] Brussels is the capital of Belgium and also the administrative center of the European Union and NATO.

 

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\The country has three official languages: just under sixty percent of the population speaks Dutch, especially in Flanders, forty percent speaks French, especially in Wallonia and Brussels, and less than one percent speaks German, in the East Cantons. The cultural and linguistic diversity of the country has led, through a succession of state reforms, to a complex political system in which, in principle, land-related powers – such as the economy, employment and infrastructure – lie with the Regions (Flemish, Walloon and Brussels), and personal matters – such as education, culture and welfare – at the Communities (Flemish, French and German-speaking), with an overarching federal government for the entire territory, responsible for defence, justice and social security, among other things.

History

Belgium was populated in prehistoric times by various Celtic and Germanic tribes, including the Menapii, the Morines, the Nervii and the Eburones under Ambiorix. In Roman times, the Celtic tribes in the area between the North Sea, Rhine, Seine and Marne, the south of the Netherlands, Belgium, northern France and parts of West Germany) were collectively referred to as Belgae, from which the name Belgen eventually originated. originated. Their home area Gallia Belgica was part of the Roman Empire and broke up into a number of feudal states during the Middle Ages.

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The area of ​​Belgium consists of two parts: lowland, which belongs to the coastal plain of the North Sea in the north; and the Ardennes plateau in the south. This dichotomy has a geological origin. In the Ardennes, hard rocks of a very old age (Paleozoic) lie on the surface, in which rivers have cut themselves deeply. In Flanders, as in the Netherlands and large parts of northern Germany, the shallow subsurface consists of unconsolidated sedimentary rocks from the Tertiary and Quaternary. In Flanders, the soil used to be swampy in many places, but it has been drained by man into water bodies. The signal of Botrange, Belgium's highest point, at 694 meters The rivers Maas, Scheldt and Yser have a large part of their catchment area in Belgium. In the extreme east of the country, in the provinces of Liège and Luxembourg, there is also an area belonging to the catchment area of ​​the Rhine (via the Moselle), in the south of the province of Hainaut a small area belonging to the catchment area of ​​the