Belgium
Belgium (officially Kingdom of Belgium) is a country in Western Europe, with its capital at Brussels, and is home to roughly 11.9M people.
Its official languages are German, French, Dutch; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Belgian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Belgium once went 589 days without an elected government, a peacetime record.
- »It is split between Dutch-speaking Flanders, French-speaking Wallonia and a small German-speaking community.
> BORDERS_
Belgium touches four neighbours: France to the south, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast and Netherlands to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Brussels is officially bilingual in French and Dutch, and hosts the European Commission and NATO, which makes it a national capital and something close to a continental one.
> SCALE_
30,536 km² (11,790 sq mi), 138th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Lesotho.
Population 11,858,610, 82nd of 198 on file. That averages 388 per km² (1,006 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
Black, yellow and red come from the arms of the Duchy of Brabant. It is one of the few national flags that is taller in proportion than the usual 2:3, officially 13:15.