Municipalities in Belgium

Map showing the provinces and the municipalities of Belgium

Belgium is made of 589 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten, French: communes, German: Gemeinde). These municipalities are grouped into five provinces.

Usually, municipalities are the smallest subdivisions of Belgium, but in municipalities with more than 100,000 people living there, they get divided into Districts (Dutch: districten).

Other websites

• Vereniging van Vlaamse Steden en Gemeenten– Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities
• Union des Villes et Communes de Wallonie– Union of Cities and Municipalities of Wallonia
• AVCB-VSGB– Association of the City and Municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region