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	Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Belgium is divided into three communities, the Flemish community, the French-speaking community and the German-speaking community, and in three regions: Brussels (mainly Dutch- and French-speaking, with a population of 980,000), Flemish region (mainly Dutch-speaking, with a population of 5,900,000), and Wallonia (mainly French-speaking, with a population of 3,360,000).
		Belgium is composed of the 5 northern Dutch-speaking provinces of Flanders, the 5 southern French-speaking provinces of Wallonia and the Capital Region of Brussels.
		Belgium was one of the first countries to adopt the euro, the single European currency, in January 1999 and the Belgian franc was completely replaced by euro coins and banknotes in early 2002.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Belgium (3330 words)

	The size of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The only other high-profile measure of similar size is the "Belgium" (as in "three times the size of Belgium").
		Among frequently-used references to "the size of Wales" is that an area of Amazon rainforest the size of Wales is cleared every year.
		In the United States, newscasters similarly refer to the sizes of Texas and Rhode Island.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/The_size_of_Belgium (182 words)

	BELGIUM: COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE - 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Belgium and the United States have enjoyed strong reciprocal trade relations over the years; Belgium ranks as the 9th largest trading partner of the United States.
		Belgium has a diversified industrial and commercial base and is comprised of three regions: Wallonia in the south, Flanders in the north, and Brussels in the center.
		Additionally, Belgium’s capital city, Brussels, is one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities and is home to the headquarters of both the European Union and NATO in addition to the European headquarters of hundreds of multinational corporations.
	www.mac.doc.gov /tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/Countries/Belgium/CountryCommercial/1999/ExecutiveSummary.html (1482 words)

	BELGIUM: COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE - 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Belgium is a major market for American products and imported an estimated $12.5 billion in 1996, about half of which transits or is re-exported.
		The Government of Belgium and the major opposition parties have declared that their primary economic objective is for Belgium to be included in the "first tier" of European Monetary Union (EMU) as laid out in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty.
		Belgium is confident that it will qualify for "first tier" EMU membership in 1999.
	www.mac.doc.gov /tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/Countries/Belgium/CountryCommercial/1998/hs~ExecutiveSummary.html (859 words)

	Belgium Economic Information Page
		Belgium is a federal state composed of a central government, three regional governments (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels Region) and three different language communities (Dutch, French and German).
		Belgium ranked as the twelfth-largest trading country in the world in 2000, with exports and imports each equivalent to about 75 percent of GDP.
		Belgium continues to be a magnet for many North American companies desiring to establish a presence in Europe.
	www.usembassy.be /belgium/belecon.htm (921 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Despite its small size, Belgium, and particularly the Brussels area, is a very active telecommunication marketplace hosting many European Institutions as well as a large number of multinational companies.
		Belgium is also the main transit point for much of the voice and data traffic streams amongst France, Germany, Holland and the United Kingdom.
		Belgium remains on the cutting edge of technology and has demonstrated itself as the role model not only for other countries in Europe, but also for those around the world.
	www.nusinc.com /section_home/p_news_detail.asp?language=1&PRID=45 (365 words)

	Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Belgium has a population of over ten million people in only thirty thousand square kilometres, making it the 17th most densely populated country in the world.
		To the east is an officially recognised minority of German speakers; the capital of Belgium, the Brussels-Capital Region, is legally bilingual.
		Belgium is the host of three prominent international organisations: NATO, the European Union and EUROCONTROL.
	boxstops4education.com /belgium.html (460 words)

	Travel Classics: A Toast to Belgium: Karen Berger
		And, while the old cliché refers to the size of Belgium — only slightly larger than the state of Maryland — the truth is, when you're on foot, even a small country looms large.
		Flemish is spoken in prosperous, populous Flanders; in rural Wollonie, the language is French.
		But in Belgium, the relationship between host and American guest was forged long ago, and the American traveling today is the beneficiary of a goodwill forged on the poppy-covered fields of Flanders and the bloodied snows of the Ardennes.
	www.travelclassics.com /library/belgium_beer.shtml (2193 words)

	MineralTown.com:Articles about Localities - Minerals of slag heaps of Belgium
		Belgium was a famous place for coal mines between the end of the 19th century and 1970.(The last one closed in 1972) These mines followed an axis starting in the north of France and rejoining Germany, crossing the french speaking part of Belgium called "Wallonie", from Mons to Liege.
		Smoky quartz on siderite, Terril St-Antoine, Boussu, Province of Hainaut, Belgium.
		Smoky scepter quartz from the slag heap Terril St-Antoine, Boussu, Province of Hainaut, Belgium.
	www.mineraltown.com /Reports/19/19.php (362 words)

	Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Belgium's Xavier Malisse overpowered Austrian Juergen Melzer 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Friday to advance to the final of the St Poelten Grand Prix in Austria.
		Belgium has been working hard to counter criticisms that it passports are too easy to forge ever since 2001 when suicide bombers posing as television...
		Belgium and Luxembourg are being rocked by South African beats and treated to morogo and Mopani worms in celebration of South Africa's ten years of democracy.
	www.world-news-watch.com /world/062004/Belgium.html (12667 words)

	PANASONIC Belgium - Image Size
		Describes the size of a digital image using the number of pixels it contains.
		Image size depends on the number of image pixels in the camera's CCD.
		For example, the largest image that a 2,000,000-pixel (2-megapixel) camera could produce would be 1600 x 1200 pixels, and the largest image a 3-megapixel camera could produce would be 2048 x 1536 pixels.
	www.panasonic.be /servlet/PB/menu/1042575_l2/index.html (60 words)

	Belgium (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Belgium" is the rudest word in the universe, which is "completely banned in all parts of the Galaxy, except in one part, where they could not possibly know what it means."
		a unit of measurement - see the size of Belgium
		The Belgian horse is a horse breed comes from the Brabant region of Belgium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belgium_(disambiguation) (150 words)

	Belgium's imperialist rape of Africa: A review of King Leopold's Ghost
		Adam Hochschild's study of King Leopold II of Belgium's creation of the Congo Free State goes to the essence of the economic and political systems established in colonial Africa.
		Leopold developed a military dictatorship over a country 76 times the size of Belgium, with only a small number of white officials.
		Hochschild also criticises the almost exclusive focus of the CRA movement on Belgium, citing comparable brutality by the US in the Philippines, the British in Australia, the Germans in what is now Namibia.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/sep1999/king-s06.shtml (2322 words)

	Belgium : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Although they're such small places, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg contain a diversity of culture, language, and tradition that defies easy definition.
		Belgium, for example, is fractured along the age-old European great divide between the Germanic north and the Latin south, a division expressed in the constant regional bickering between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia that threatens to split the country entirely.
		The visitor from afar may well be more impressed by their shared characteristics, which include a determined grasp on the good life, than by the differences that separate them.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/belgium/0213010001.html (295 words)

	Belgium - Services : INCENTIVE TRAVEL TO THE U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Belgium is a country with approximately 10.4 million inhabitants and an
		Belgium is ranked 19th worldwide in the number of visitors to the United
		Belgium is a small country and has a well-developed, cost-effective rail
	www.exporthotline.com /upload/ECF4570C-F5F2-4C1E-B7F4-D2D262A8319E.html (2360 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| World dispatch \| Hell is Belgian bureaucrats
		It may be small in size, but Belgium is frighteningly big on bureaucracy.
		Armed with a battery of Dickensian stamps, a rulebook as obtuse as it is thick and the mindset of Cruella De Vil, they do their best to make the life of the ordinary citizen a special Belgian form of hell.
		Switzerland is often accused of having more rules than cows but Belgium is not far behind, and for its bureaucrats no detail is too small.
	www.guardian.co.uk /elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1000990,00.html (856 words)

	Article Print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While small in size, Belgium is packed with diversity both in culture and in terms of economic development.
		According to 2004 statistics released by the Belgium National Bank, Belgium’s economy grew 2.7 percent compared with the 1.8 percent average in Europe.
		Economists studying Belgium’s performance derive that its good performance is because of several factors, one being the fact that it continues to profit from the number of distribution centers (DC) locating there.
	www.expansionmanagement.com /smo/articleviewer/newsdatabase_print.asp?pcmd=articleprint&articleid=16378 (1051 words)

	Belgium's French Community
		Is federalism necessary to a country the size of Belgium ?
		Size is not the criteria according to which the State is organised on a unitary or federal basis.
		In Belgium, it is to enable diverse groups of people to continue to live side by side.
	www.cfwb.be /gb/presentation/communaute/pg002.html (294 words)

	AmCham Belgium -
		Located within a 375-mile radius of 70% of the 370 million European Union (EU) inhabitants, Belgium is right in the center of all the action — politically and economically.
		The capital of Europe as well as Belgium, Brussels is the bustling home of the European Union, NATO and hundreds of international institutions, associations and multinational corporations.
		In addition, it is estimated that Belgium imported USD 12 billion from the U.S. in 2003.
	www.amcham.be /pub/about_belgium.shtml (273 words)

	News for Ghent, Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Expatica, Netherlands -: BRUSSELS â“ Police in Belgium and the UK have arrested seven people thought to have been part of a gang smuggling Asian illegal immigrants into Europe, it was...
		Expatica, Netherlands -: BRUSSELS â“ Belgium's national holiday on July 21 will be used to mark the 60th anniversary of country's liberation from the Nazis in September 1944.
		Belgium conceded the second goal in the 51st minute with Deepak Thakur pushing home a Dhanraj Pillay pass.
	www.4newz.net /new/world/cities/Ghent.html (12368 words)

	Amazonian deforestation rates down. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Despite the drop in activity, environmentalists claim that the deforestation is still at unacceptable levels and cannot be sustainable for much longer.
		Over 13,000 square miles of forest in the region was destroyed in the last two years, an area roughly the size of Belgium.
		Local authority monitoring and NGO activism have been cited as key factors behind the reduction.
	www.greenconsumerguide.com /news606.html (111 words)

	Tim Blair: ATLAS SKIMMED
		Britain and France combined, and the size of Italy.
		Each year, the Amazon loses an area almost the size of Washington State, land the size of Portugal, an area of rainforest the size of Brazil, a chunk the size of Connecticut, forested acreage the size of Poland, and an area equivalent to the size of Rhode Island.
		So if I read this correctly, that means that Brazil is the same size as Belgium, which in turn is twice its own size in some Euclidean paradox I can't even comprehend.
	timblair.spleenville.com /archives/003218.php (1744 words)

	Belgium News
		Princess Mathilde of Belgium, who is currently looking forward to the arrival of her third child, was equally elegant in a zingy orange jacket when she attended a seminar to promote information technology for disabled youngsters.
		They require one programmer to stay in Belgium for the long-term, one to start in August for four months in Belgium then to relocate to Singapore for at least one year.
		He gave an example of the 2002 world Cross Country Championships that was switched from Ostend in Belgium at the 11th hour to Dublin in Ireland due to the mad cow disease.
	www.topix.net /world/belgium (1355 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Governor appeals to save Amazon
		Roraima, which covers an area the size of Britain, has just eleven fire engines to tackle the blaze.
		The fires, caused by a severe drought related to the El Nino phenomenon, have been exacerbated by local farmers using traditional cut and burn techniques to clear their land.
		Territory the size of Belgium is charred and ruined and scientists say only seasonal rains next month can now stop the destruction.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_67000/67549.stm (484 words)

	PANASONIC Belgium - Half Size
		A standard film size (17 x 24mm) that is about half the size of a single frame of 35mm film (36 x 24mm).
		This allows approximately twice as many pictures to be taken as a roll of 35mm film.
		Also called "cinema size," since movie film was originally this size.
	www.panasonic.be /servlet/PB/menu/1042691_l2 (50 words)

	Summer Study in Belgium
		Brussels, the capital of Belgium and one of Europe's principal cities, is 25 minutes by commuter train from Leuven.
		The central location and size of Belgium facilitates weekend trips.
		Students in the Belgium Program must be able to use public transport, negotiate stairs, take long walks, and attend scheduled classes.
	www.loyno.edu /~belgium/leuven_description.html (545 words)

	Belgium market size for snack nuts as sales in US dollars for 2001, with ranked percent sales market share breakdown ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Belgium market size for snack nuts as sales in US dollars for 2001, with ranked percent sales market share breakdown for each of six retail venues
		Poland market size for snack nuts as sales in US dollars for 2001, with ranked percent sales market share breakdown for each of six retail venues
		Belgium savory snack market size as sales in US dollars for 2001, with ranked percent sales market share breakdown for each of six retail venues
	www.researchandmarkets.co.uk /reports/256680 (440 words)

	Furniture - Find, Compare, and Buy at DealTime.co.uk
		This bed is traditionally hand tufted and has many layers of fillings giving the mattress an overall thickness of 10 inches (25 cm) all of which contribute to offering the ultimate in comfort.
		This mattress is hand tufted with a quality Belgium damask cover.
		The solid wooden frame is covered in a stylish Belgium damask.
	www.dealtime.co.uk /xDN-Furniture-BELGIUM-king (867 words)

	Worldworx Travel - Features - Belgium - Information - Ostend
		Ostend lies on the coast of Belgium, in the north of the country.
		It began life as a sleepy fishing village in the 11th century and quickly grew in size to be Belgium's main port until Zeebrugge in the 19th century.
		Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without written permission of Worldworx is prohibited.
	www.worldworx.tv /belgium/dc/information/ostend.htm (217 words)

	World Country Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		About the world country Belgium, its location, size, population, and who is in power.
		Location: In western Europe, on the coast of the English Channel (North Sea) between France and the Netherlands.
		Who Really Rules: Belgium is run by a Brussels-based bureaucracy, tenuously linking two ethnically distinct provinces.
	www.trivia-library.com /c/world-country-belgium.htm (245 words)

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