Brussels

Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located... Wikipedia

  • Community:  French Community, Flemish Community
  • Settled:  c. 580
  • Founded:  979
  • County of Brussels:  c. 870
  • City Charter of Brussels:  10 June 1229
  • Region:  18 June 1989
  • Founded by:  Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine
  • Capital:  City of Brussels
  • Executive:  Government of the Brussels-Capital Region
  • Governing parties (2019–present):  PS, DéFI, Ecolo, Open Vld, Vooruit, Groen
  • Minister-President:  Rudi Vervoort (PS)
  • Legislature:  Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region
  • Speaker:  Rachid Madrane (PS)
  • Region/City:  1,235,192
  • Estimate (1 January 2020):  1,212,352
  • Metro:  2,500,000
  • Demonym(s):  Brusselian, fr Bruxellois(e), nl Brusselaar /Brusselse
  • Time zone:  CET (UTC+1)
  • Summer (DST):  CEST (UTC+2)
  • Postal code(s):  42 postal codes
  • Area code(s):  02
  • ISO 3166 code:  BE-BRU
  • GeoTLD:  brussels
  • HDI (2019):  0.948, very high · 1st of 11
  • Website:  be.brussels
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo
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