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Brussels capital and largest city

The infobox states that Brussels is the largest city in Belgium, but when you click on it it links to the City of Brussels article not the Brussels Capital Region. The City of Brussels is NOT the largest city in Belgium by itself, only when you include the entire Brussels capital region.2602:306:CC42:8340:B9DA:211D:AE70:83C2 (talk) 02:17, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Then what is the largest city in Belgium? Gerard von Hebel (talk) 18:07, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I meant that isn't Brussels the City separate from the Brussels Capital Region? They list only the City of Brussels as the capital and not the whole region.2602:306:CC42:8340:D982:41B3:9554:523E (talk) 00:41, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
With a population of 510,610, Antwerp is the most populous city in Belgium [1]
But why are we only counting the Ville de Bruxelles municipality for the population of Brussels? The idea that Ixelles or Anderlecht doesn't count as part of the Brussels is pretty curious.—Brigade Piron (talk) 08:47, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Brussels is no longer listed as the largest city in Belgium in the article. That is wrong as the entire Brussels-capital is considered one city and has a population of about 1.4 million. This is not the metro area which has a larger population. That is larger than Antwerp. The article should be changed.2602:306:CC42:8340:4CA9:B83C:E252:11B4 (talk) 09:59, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Folklore

Your affirmation "A major non-official holiday is the Saint-Nicolas (Sint Nicholas in English) Day, a festivity for children in Belgium and also for students" is not correct. Saint Nicholas Day is also celebrated for students in all University towns in Belgium. Many drivers stuck in the traffic would confirm it was because of the Sint Nicholas students's procession in Brussels. Eva. 23March2010


PS: ridiculous comments about Belgium once again among other stupid comments from French and other Wikipedians about other items and articles!

Is it the outcome of Wikipedia's idealistic project about which I wasted my time attending a MOOC course on the French platform FUN early this year ?? See at https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/WMFr/86001/session01/info.

Now I am telling you frankly after +/- 6 months personal experience: I found out all those VAIN, FUTILE 'guerres d'édition'/ 'edit warring' (such nice words!!): the black side of Wikipedia!

Matter of EGOS only !

HOW DISAPPOINTING!

Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring & https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Guerre_d%27%C3%A9dition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars & https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Guerres_d%27%C3%A9dition_les_plus_futiles.

Actually most of them are completely VAIN (EN) / FUTILES (FR)! Just a matter of common sense ~~

Army and Molenbeek

Regarding this and previous similar edits, the claim that the Belgian army is "failed" (whatever that means) would need to be sourced. The material on Molenbeek does not belong here, but rather at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek and, to some extent, at Brussels. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:54, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation of <Belgien> in German

There's a schwa in there... Wathiik (talk) 09:50, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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