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Anderlecht
Anderlecht is a municipality in the west of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, with about 122,000 inhabitants and a medieval center around the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter and Saint Guido.
Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers), Belgium's second city on the Scheldt with about 516,000 people: Europe-scale port (266.5 million tonnes, 13.5 million TEU in 2025), 500-year diamond centre, Plantin-Moretus UNESCO museum, Rubens, and the 1863 reopening of the Scheldt.
Bastogne
Bastogne (Bastenaken) is an Ardennes municipality in Belgium's Luxembourg province; since merging with Bertogne in December 2024 it is Belgium's largest municipality at 265 km², famed for the 1944 Battle of the Bulge siege and McAuliffe's 'Nuts!' reply.
Bruges
Bruges (Brugge), West Flanders, Belgium: medieval trading metropolis, host of the Hanseatic League's chief trading post, birthplace of Flemish Primitive painting, UNESCO World Heritage historic centre since 2000, population about 120,000.
Brugge, Flanders
Brugge (Bruges), West Flanders, Belgium: medieval trading metropolis and UNESCO World Heritage site (Historic Centre of Brugge, 2000, criteria ii, iv, vi; 410 ha). Cradle of the Flemish Primitives, Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling; brick Gothic, canals, Belfry.
Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles/Brussel), capital of Belgium and the Brussels-Capital Region of 19 municipalities, hosts the EU institutions; known for the Brussels paradox of high GDP per capita alongside the EU's highest poverty rate among capital regions.
Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont
Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont is a Walloon municipality in Hainaut, arrondissement of Charleroi, with villages Godarville and Piéton; about 15,033 residents in 2026, former coal town with 1222 charter and Herlaimont priory.
Charleroi
Charleroi, largest city in Wallonia, Belgium (206,900 residents, 2026), on the Sambre river; a former coal, steel, and glass center, site of the 1956 Bois du Cazier mining disaster (262 dead, UNESCO-listed), with major photography and fine-arts museums.
Echternach
Echternach (Iechternach) is Luxembourg's oldest town, on the Sauer at the German border, built around the Benedictine abbey Saint Willibrord founded in 698; famous for the Whit Tuesday Hopping Procession inscribed by UNESCO in 2010, a Roman villa, and the Mullerthal region.
Goeblange
Goeblange (Luxembourgish: Goeblingen) is a village in the commune of Koerich in central-western Luxembourg, known for the Gallo-Roman villa of Goeblingen-Miecher and the Celtic necropolis of Goeblange-Nospelt.
Ixelles
Ixelles (Elsene), a central municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region, 6.34 km², about 89,600 residents in 2024; hosts ULB/VUB universities, the European Quarter, and Flagey; Belgium's most expensive commune for houses (€812,500 median, 2023).
Leuven
Leuven (Louvain), capital of Flemish Brabant, Belgium: a university city of 105,233 inhabitants (2025), home to KU Leuven founded in 1425, with about 50,000 students and a city-wide climate-neutrality program.
Liège
Liège (Luik, Lüttich) is a Meuse-river city in eastern Belgium, fourth largest in the country, former prince-bishopric seat, home of the University of Liège (1817), a 2025 tramway, major port and e-commerce airport hub.
Lier, Belgium
Lier (Lierre) is a Flemish town in Antwerp Province, Belgium, at the confluence of the Grote and Kleine Nete; city rights since 1212, known for the Zimmer Tower, beguinage, Sint-Gummaruskerk, and 38,747 residents (2026).
Luxembourg City
Luxembourg City (Lëtzebuerg), capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg at the Alzette-Pétrusse confluence; medieval fortress dismantled after 1867, UNESCO World Heritage since 1994, EU institutional seat with 137,696 residents.
Mechelen
Mechelen, Belgian city in Antwerp province, Flanders, on the Dijle between Antwerp and Brussels; 90,355 residents (2026), former capital of the Burgundian Netherlands, home of the Grote Raad supreme court and three UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (Sint-Jans-Molenbeek), a Brussels-Capital Region commune, postal code 1080. Former 'Little Manchester' industrial suburb; Charleroi Canal 1832, first continental passenger train 1835; about 95,000 residents.
Mons, Wallonia
Mons (Flemish Bergen), capital of Hainaut province in Wallonia, Belgium; hilltop city of about 98,000 on the Trouille. Known for its 87 m Baroque belfry (UNESCO 1999), Spiennes flint mines, Doudou festival, and 2015 European Capital of Culture title.
Ostend
Ostend (Oostende, Ostende), Belgium's largest coastal city in West Flanders: 73,000 residents, 7 km beach, 658 ha port, railway terminus, James Ensor's home city, and a focal point of Flemish coastal flood defense.
Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek (Dutch: Schaarbeek), a bilingual municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, postal code 1030; first recorded as Scarenbecca in 1120, independent commune since 1795, about 129,000 inhabitants, town hall rebuilt after the 1911 fire.
Uccle
Uccle (Ukkel) is a large, green, high-income commune in southern Brussels, first cited about 1090, with about 77,000 residents, a quarter from the EU, a 2019 climate emergency plan, and 30 km/h zones on 95% of its roads.
Waterloo, Belgium
Waterloo, Belgium, is a Walloon municipality about 16 km south of Brussels, best known as the site of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Ypres
Ypres (Dutch: Ieper) is a West Flanders municipality in Belgium, a medieval cloth city, destroyed in World War I and rebuilt, now the unofficial capital of Flanders Fields with the Menin Gate Last Post and UNESCO-listed belfry.