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

• Country:  Belgium
• Community:  French Community, Flemish Community
• Settled:  c. 580
• County of Brussels:  c. 870
• Founded:  979
• 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:  1,249,597
• 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 (2021):  0.953, very high · 1st of 11
• Website:  be.brussels
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo