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Belgium (Dutch: Koninkrijk België; French: Royaume de Belgique; German: Königreich Belgien) is a country in northwest Europe bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France and is one of the founding and core members of the European Union. Belgium has a population of over ten million people, in an area of around 30,000 square kilometres (11,700 square miles).

Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Romance Europe, it is linguistically divided. Mainly two languages are spoken in Belgium: Dutch is spoken by the 6 million people in Flanders to the north, French by the 3.3 million Walloons in the south. The capital, Brussels, is officially bilingual, while the majority of its residents speak French. Around 70,000 people live in the German-speaking Community in the east of the country. This linguistic diversity often leads to political and cultural conflict and is reflected in Belgium's complex system of government and political history.

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...that Belgium is ranked as the best country to do academic research by The Scientist in 2007?
...that the 2007 government formation was the longest government formation in Belgian history?
...that the Belgians formed the third largest non-Commonwealth contingent in the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain?

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...that Sir John Houblon, the first Governor of the Bank of England, was the son of a Walloon protestant who had fled to London to escape religious persecution?
...that the Belgian National Railways operate the densest rail network in the world?
...that Belgium is ranked as the best country in the field of educational well-being by a UNICEF report on the well-being of children in rich countries published in 2007?
...that TC Matic, the former band of Arno Hintjens, split after touring with the Simple Minds?
...that Johan Vande Lanotte, party president of the SP.a, is a professor of public law at the Ghent University?
...that Raoul Cauvin, a comics writer with over 45 million albums sold, started his career as a cameraman for animated movies at Dupuis?

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Anniversaries for June 13

823: birth of Charles the Bald, King of West Francia
1142: death of Godfrey II of Leuven, Count of Leuven, landgrave of Brabant and margrave of Antwerp
1870: birth of Jules Bordet, immunologist and microbiologist, received the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1901: birth of Lode Zielens, writer and journalist
1913: death of Camille Lemonnier, writer and poet
1914: birth of Constant Vanden Stock, brewer, former president and player with R.S.C. Anderlecht, former coach of the Belgium national football team between 1958 and 1968
1952: birth of Jean-Marie Dedecker, judo coach and politician

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