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Important Cities

Brussels(Capital)
Antwerp
Ghent
Charleroi
Bruges
Hasselt
Tongeren
Liege
Mons
Leuven
Bovillon
Mechelen
Kortrijk

Main Attractions

Ardennes
Belfry and the Memling Museum(Brugge)
Cathedral of Saint Bavo (Ghent)
Royal museum of Fine Arts (Brussels)
Grand Place (Brussels)
Meuse Valley
Castle of the Counts of Flanders (Ghent)
Diamond Museum (Antwerp)
Plantin Moretus Museum(Antwerp)

Main Industries

Prtroleum
Chemicals
Processed food and Beverages
Textiles
Metals
Scientific Instruments
Engineering and Metal Products

Belgium is divided ethnically into the Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons, the 70,000 residents of the eastern German cantons, and the bilingual capital of Brussels.
Belgium supported the expansion of NATO and EU membership to the new democracies of central and eastern Europe and is actively engaged in the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe.
Belgium served as the Chair-in-Office of the OSCE in 2006.
Belgium hosts the headquarters of NATO and a major part of the European Union's institutions and administrations, including the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the extraordinary and committee sessions of the European Parliament, as well as parts of its administration.
Belgium is one of the few countries that has compulsory voting, thus having one of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world.
Currently, the Belgium economy is heavily service-oriented and shows a dual nature with a dynamic Flemish part with Brussels as its main multilingual and multi-ethnic centre and a GNP/person which is one of the highest from the European union, and a Walloon economy that lags roughly one quarter behind (in GNP/person).
Belgium was a country which had very few voters; out of a population of more than six millions there never were more than 150,000, and during the last years of the Liberal Government no less than six laws had been passed to diminish this number still further by excluding entire classes of Catholic voters.
The continuation of the Catholic regime in Belgium seems to be contingent on a radical reform of school legislation, on provision for the division of State subventions among all the communal or private schools in proportion to the services that they render, and greater boldness in the solution of the labour questions.
According to the census of 31 December, 1905, the population of Belgium is 7,160,547.
Belgium [1] is a low-lying country on the North Sea coast in Western Europe.

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