Belgium

Facts

What the numbers say about Belgium

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 554× the size of Belgium.
• Belgium ranks 80th of 237 by population but only 140th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 386 people per km², Belgium is the 15th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 51°N is drawn about 2.5× too large in area, so Belgium looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Belgium's main territory stretches about 222 km north to south and 271 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 30,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 30,700 km², to within 2%.

How Belgium measures up

Belgium holds 0.1% of the land area and 1.6% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Western Europe it is the 6th largest of 9.

Where Belgium sits

• Belgium's centre lies at 50.6°N, 4.6°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 5,630 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 49°N to 51°N, about 220 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Belgium had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Belgium would have 38.4 million people. It has 11.8 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Belgium would have 114,000 people. It has 11.8 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 2.2 million.

Compare Belgium

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