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{{Infobox Country
|native_name = '''''Koninkrijk België'''''<br/>'''''Royaume de Belgique'''''<br/>'''''Königreich Belgien'''''|conventional_long_name = '''Kingdom of Belgium'''
|common_name = Belgium
|image_flag = 450px-Flag of Belgium.png
|image_coat = Belgium coat of arms large.png
|symbol_type = Coat of arms
|image_map = LocationBelgium.png
|official_languages = Dutch, French, German
|capital = Brussels
|latd=50 |latm=54 |latNS=N |longd=4 |longm=32 |longEW=E
|government_type = Federal constitutional monarchy
|sovereignty_type = Independence
|sovereignty_note = from the Netherlands
|established_event1 = Declared
|established_date1 = October 4, 1830
|established_event2 = Recognised
|established_date2 = Treaty of London, April 19, 1839
|area = 30,528
|areami² = 11,787
|area_magnitude = 1 E10
|percent_water = 6.4
|population_estimate = 10,419,000 <!--UN estimate for mid-2005-->
|population_estimate_year = 2005
|population_census = 10,296,350
|population_census_year = 2001
}}
The '''Kingdom of Belgium''' (Dutch: Koninkrijk België; French: Royaume de Belgique; German: Königreich Belgien) is a country in northwest Europe bordered by [[Netherlands|the Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Luxembourg]] and [[France]]. Belgium has a population of over ten million people, in an area of around 30,000 square kilometres (11,700 square miles).
==Genealogical Associations==
==History relevant to genealogists==
==Digital Archives==
==Archives==
==Main sources of genealogical information==
Todo
==Links to pages with more links and information==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium About:Belgium]
===Genealogy dedicated wiki's===
* [http://www.geneawiki.be geneawiki.be] The wiki made by the svvf suborganisation ''Computer and Genealogy'', a non-profit organisation.
* [http://genealogie-limburg.net/genwiki/index.php/Hoofdpagina Limburg wiki] Genealogy in the province of Limburg
===Link sites===
*[http://groups.msn.com/GENPALS2003/belgium.msnw GENPALS]
*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~gsfa/index.html Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans]
*[http://genealogie.start.be/ start.be]
*[http://geneaknowhow.net/digi/bronnen.html geneaknowhow] a lot of digital sources from The Netherlands and Belgium : update nearly every day
*[http://www.zeeuwengezocht.nl/ ISIS] If you have ascendants from 'Zeeuws-Vlaanderen' : the southern part of The Netherlands
[[Category:Countries]]