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Brussels
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municipality and capital city of Belgium
Brussels is the capital city of Belgium and serves as its largest municipality. It matters as the political and administrative center of Belgium and is also home to major institutions of the European Union, making it a significant hub for European governance and decision-making.
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- Named after
- home
- Official name
- Stad Brussel
- Demonym
- brussel·leses
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 195546
- Area
- 33.08
- Elevation
- 70
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Brussels–Charleroi Canal
- Head of government
- Philippe Close
- Capital of
- European Union
- Shares border with
- Jette
- Official website
- www.brucity.be
- Image
- Brussels view from Mont des Arts, Brussels, Belgium (cropped).jpg
- Dialing code
- 02
- Flag
- flag of Brussels
- Coat of arms
- coat of arms of Brussels
- Patron saint
- Gaugericus
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- twinned administrative body
- Brasília
- Commons category
- Brussels (municipality)
- topic's main category
- Category:City of Brussels
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Brussels
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Brussels
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Brussels
- different from
- Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital
- postal code
- 1130
- native label
- Brussele
- time of earliest written record
- 0966-00-00
- annual number of weddings
- 693
- short name
- Bru
- P8168
- Strambino
- social media followers
- 17671
- P11012
- Italy
- phone number
- +32-2-279-22-11
- color
- red
- present in work
- Civilization V
- contains settlement
- Haren
- P12674
- Baengma Station
- external data available at URL
- opendata.brussels.be
- Commons gallery
- Bruxelles – Brussel
- inception
- 1795-10-01
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Encyclopedic overview
The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Region (from which it is separate), and Belgium. The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions in its European Quarter.
Besides the central historic town located within the Pentagon, the City of Brussels covers some of the city's immediate outskirts within the greater Brussels-Capital Region, namely the former municipalities of Haren, Laeken, and Neder-Over-Heembeek to the north, as well as the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan and the Bois de la Cambre/Ter Kamerenbos park to the south-east, where it borders municipalities in Flanders.
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