Municipalities of Belgium

administrative division of Belgium
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Belgium is made of 581 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten, French: communes, German: Gemeinden). These municipalities are grouped into ten provinces (five belonging to the Flemish Region with 300 municipalities, five to the Walloon Region with 262 municipalities), and the Brussels-Capital Region (with 19 municipalities).[1]

Map showing the provinces and the municipalities of Belgium

Usually, municipalities are the smallest subdivisions of Belgium, but in municipalities with more than 100,000 people living there, they get divided into districts (Dutch: districten).

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  1. The communes, belgium.be

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