Map of Belgium
Open Belgium on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.
Facts
As the source states them, in the source’s own words.
| Capital | Brussels |
|---|---|
| Area | 30,528 km² |
| Currency | EUR (Euro) |
| Languages | German, French, Dutch |
Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.
Historical maps
IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that Belgium existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.
Dated events in this outline
Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of Belgium. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.
- 1914
- 1914
The Rape of Belgium — mass shootings of civilians during the invasion, and four years of forced labour after it
World War I · IntMap’s war record
4 August → - 1914
- 1914
Siege of Namur — the last Belgian fortress on the Meuse falls in five days
World War I · IntMap’s war record
20 August → - 1914
Battle of the Ardennes — two French armies walk into the German centre in fog
World War I · IntMap’s war record
21 August → - 1914
Battle of Charleroi — the French Fifth Army is driven off the Sambre
World War I · IntMap’s war record
21 August → - 1914
Battle of Mons — the British Army’s first action of the war
World War I · IntMap’s war record
23 August → - 1914
The sack of Louvain — 248 civilians killed and the university library burned with its 300,000 books
World War I · IntMap’s war record
25 August → - 1914
- 1914
Battle of the Yser — the Belgians open the sluices and flood the last corner of their country
World War I · IntMap’s war record
16 October → - 1914
- 1915
Second Ypres — the first large-scale use of poison gas on the Western Front
World War I · IntMap’s war record
22 April → - 1917
- 1918
The Zeebrugge and Ostend raids — an attempt to bottle up the U-boat bases behind the Belgian coast
World War I · IntMap’s war record
23 April → - 1944
The Scheldt — Antwerp has been Allied since 4 September and cannot be used until its estuary is cleared
World War II · IntMap’s war record
2 October → - 1944
- 1944
Malmedy — 84 American prisoners are shot in a field on the second day of the Ardennes offensive
World War II · IntMap’s war record
17 December →
Open data about Belgium
The datasets IntMap may share about Belgium, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/BEL.json
airports
Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
country-facts
ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0
health
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial
Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data
language
public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit
Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)
mobility
ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
religion
public domain · Requires: nothing
What this page states
The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.
A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.
An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.
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