Belgium
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- BE
- ISO alpha-3
- BEL
- ISO numeric
- 056
- FIPS 10-4
- BE
- GeoNames ID
- 2802361
Key facts
- Capital
- Brussels
- Area
- 30,510 km²
- Population
- 11,422,068
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Calling code
- +32
- Top-level domain
- .be
- Official languages
- nl-BE,fr-BE,de-BE
Continent
- Name
- Europe
- Code
- EU
- In this dataset
- 54 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 50.75
- Longitude
- 4.5
- Min latitude
- 49.49522288100006
- Min longitude
- 2.521799927545686
- Max latitude
- 51.49623769100005
- Max longitude
- 6.374525187000074
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/BE?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 30510,
"capital": "Brussels",
"continent_code": "EU",
"currency_code": "EUR",
"iso3_code": "BEL",
"iso_code": "BE",
"name": "Belgium",
"population": 11422068
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/BE/regions/v1/cities?country=BE/v1/postal-codes?country=BE/v1/timezones?country=BE
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- بلجيكا
- Chinese
- 比利时
- English
- Belgium
- French
- Belgique
- German
- Belgien
- Hindi
- बेल्जियम
- Italian
- Belgio
- Japanese
- ベルギー
- Korean
- 벨기에
- Portuguese
- Bélgica
- Russian
- Бельгия
- Spanish
- Bélgica
- Total language variants
- 162
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Europe/Brussels | UTC+01:00 | UTC+02:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ####
- Pattern
^(\d{4})$
First-level administrative regions
- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Bruxelles-Capitale
3 of 3 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Brussels | 1,019,022 |
| Antwerp | 529,247 |
| Gent | 265,086 |
| Charleroi | 200,132 |
| Liège | 195,278 |
| Anderlecht | 160,553 |
| Schaerbeek | 132,761 |
| Brugge | 118,509 |
| Namur | 110,939 |
| Leuven | 101,032 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 12,669
- First-level regions
- 3
- Postal codes
- 2,781
- Name languages
- 162
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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