16/03/2018 · One of the many funny facts about Belgium is that the term ‘Thermal Spa’ used for all thermal baths around the world got its name from the Belgian town Spa. Antwerp is the second largest city in Belgium and has been known as the diamond capital of the world.

01/06/2021 · Belgians are accredited to inventing the Body Mass Index (BMI), the saxophone, and plastic. Among a number of other world-changing inventions, such as co-designing the World Wide Web, Imodium, inline skates, and a safe contraceptive pill. Read about all the inventions you didn’t know were Belgian. Belgians pay among the highest tax rates in Europe

20/07/2021 · With these 74 facts about Belgium, let us learn more about its people, culture, economy, history, geography and more. Belgium Facts. 1. The national flag of Belgium was adopted in 1931. It is a tricolor with black, yellow and red vertical strips. 2. The Belgian Franc was replaced by the Euro in 2002. The Euro is used by 19 out of the 28 European Union countries.

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06/09/2021 · BELGIUM FACTS TRIVIA: Belgium is the world’s 3rd country with the most vehicles per square kilometers after the Netherlands and Japan. Another trivia: there is an ongoing + life-long ‘joke’ that Belgians have worse roads than the Netherlands since when you cross the border, you’ll immediately see and feel the difference.

Belgium is one of the most urbanized and densely inhabited countries in the world with about 97 percent of the 10 million inhabitants living in cities in 2000. Brussels, the capital, has approximately 1 million residents, and the second city, Antwerp, has half a million.

30/09/2018 · Belgium is famous for its beer and has hundreds of different kinds of beer. 61. Belgium has produced some of the world's most influential scientists in the 16th century, including Gerardus Mercator, the famous cartographer, and the anatomist Andreas Vesalius. 62.

03/08/2009 · 12. Belgium grants the most new citizenships per capita in the world after Canada. 1.6 million people in Belgium are immigrants or children or grandchildren of immigrants. That’s 15% of the population. 13. Belgium has the highest density of roads and railroads in the world.

11/02/2016 · The Belgian professor Edward J. de Smedt invented modern road asphalt in 1870 at Columbia University in New York City and named it ‘sheet asphalt pavement.’ Belgians are also great scientists, as astronomer and professor of physics Georges Lemaître proposed what became known as the ‘Big Bang theory’ of the origin of the universe.

Birthplace: La Louvière, Belgium. One of the best Belgian footballers of all time, Eden Hazard is also regarded as one of the best players of the current generation. Thanks to his ability to retain possession among other footballing skills, Hazard is often compared with players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.