Area

Area of Belgium

  • 30,528 square kilometres
  • 3.05 million hectares
  • 11,787 square miles
  • 7.54 million acres

Can Belgium be Measured Accurately?

Well, maybe not. It seems to depend on who you ask. And whether you measure only the land, or include water also. And when you make the measurement.

Source Area in km2
http://www.belgium.be 32,545
http://www.expat-today.com 30,513
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium

http://www.madeinbelgium.be/7_about_be_central.htm

30,528
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/be.html Total: 30,528 sq km
Land: 30,278 sq km
Water: 250 sq km
Comparative: About the size of Maryland

And Belgium is still growing! According to the belgium.be site, 2,000m2 were granted by the Netherlands to Belgium on 29 May 2000 (a piece of land in Zelzate along the Ghent-Terneuzen canal). If anyone knows more about this please let me know.

To further complicate matters, there are a number of Belgian enclaves inside the Netherlands. The largest of these Belgian enclaves, contains six Dutch enclaves!

Rankings

According to the CIA rankings, these are the other countries of a similar size to Belgium. Source: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2023.html

Rank Country Area in km2
146 Taiwan 35,980
147 Moldova 33,843
148 Belgium 30,528
149 Lesotho 30,355
150 Armenia 29,800
151 Albania 28,748

 

Wikipedia also has a List of Countries By Size. In this list, Belgium is listed at number 140.

 

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