Belgium

The country calling code for Belgium is +32. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Belgium number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Belgium is assigned BE as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and BEL as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Belgium is .be. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Belgium is the Euro, with the ISO 4217 code EUR and the symbol €. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Belgium are quoted in EUR. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Belgium is +01:00, currently UTC+01:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Belgium is Brussels. Belgium sits in Europe, specifically the Western Europe subregion. Its approximate centre point is 50.83333333, 4.00000000. Traffic in Belgium drives on the right. Languages recorded for Belgium: Dutch, French, German.

Belgium shares a land border with 4 countries: France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.