Map of Belgium

Belgium is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 50.8° N, 4.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Belgium is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Belgium shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Belgium covers about 30,528 km² (11,787 sq mi). That makes it the 137th-largest country in the world by area and the 33rd-largest in Europe, larger by area than 12 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 11,825,551, the 82nd-largest in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 1.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Belgium has an average population density of about 387 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 11th by population and 33rd by area.

The seat of government is Brussels, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are German, French and Dutch. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Belgium carries the ISO country codes BE and BEL, dials on the international calling code +32 and uses the .be internet domain.

Belgium shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Germany (capital Berlin, about 83,491,249 people), France (capital Paris, about 66,351,959 people), Netherlands (capital Amsterdam, about 18,100,436 people) and Luxembourg (capital Luxembourg, about 681,973 people).

By area, Belgium is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 50.8° N, 4.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Belgium within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Brussels. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Belgium lies about 5,642 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Belgium keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are German, French and Dutch, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +32 and websites commonly use the .be internet domain.

In short, Belgium is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Brussels. Belgium has a population of about 11,825,551 and covers around 30,528 km² (11,787 sq mi), ranking it 82nd in the world by population and 137th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Belgium.

The flag of Belgium is composed of three equal vertical bands of black, yellow and red.

The flag of Belgium is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.