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Grand-Place, Brussels - panorama, Belgium
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Records
11
Datasets
37
Tables
11
Sources
166
SEL Fields
54
CCL Fields
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📋 Most recent national census: 2021. Included in HERA.
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Datasets (11)
SEL — DGIWG Statistical Extent Location SEL+ — Platform extension (not in DGIWG core spec) CCL — DGIWG Cultural Context Location Extension — Preserved in extension tables (not in core SEL/CCL schema) Pending — Awaiting mapping

3 further sources (Ethnic Power Relations Dataset, GI-TOC / ENACT, Global Data Lab) are held but not offered: their licences do not permit commercial redistribution. HERA cites their published findings with attribution and can supply the data to organisations holding their own licence — ask us.

Belgium Register Census (Eurostat demo_r_pjangrp3) BEL-EUROSTAT-CENSUS Census
67 rows · 4 tables · 2023 Eurostat 0 1 2 3 16 SEL 8 ext ▶
BEL World Bank Open Data BEL-WORLD_BANK Development Indicators
198 rows · 3 tables · 2024 World Bank Open Data 0 1 2 3 18 SEL 4 ext ▶
BEL UNHCR Refugee Data Finder BEL-UNHCR Migration
106 rows · 2 tables · 2025 UNHCR Refugee Data Finder 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 36 ext ▶
BEL LandScan Global (ORNL) BEL-LANDSCAN Modeled Population
20 rows · 3 tables · 2024 LandScan Global (ORNL) 0 1 2 3 Locality 21 SEL 2 ext ▶
BEL OpenFactBook BEL-OPENFACTBOOK Country Profile
17 rows · 17 tables · 2024 OpenFactBook 0 1 2 3 99 SEL 3 CCL 626 ext ▶
BEL GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) BEL-GHSL_UCDB Modeled Population
16 rows · 1 table · 2025 GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) 0 1 2 3 Locality 3 SEL 7 ext ▶
BEL Glottolog Language Catalog BEL-GLOTTOLOG Language
13 rows · 1 table · 2024 Glottolog Language Catalog 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 4 ext ▶
BEL NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) BEL-NGA_GNS Language
6 rows · 2 tables · 2026 NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) 0 1 2 3 4 SEL 12 CCL 20 ext ▶
BEL Google Community Mobility (2020-2022) BEL-GOOGLE-MOBILITY Mobility
3 rows · 1 table · 2022 Google 0 1 2 3 3 SEL 8 ext ▶
BEL D-PLACE BEL-DPLACE Ethnographic Societies
2 rows · 2 tables · 2024 D-PLACE 0 1 2 3 2 SEL 15 CCL 55 ext ▶
BEL INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) BEL-INFORM Risk Index
1 row · 1 table · 2026 INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) 0 1 2 3 ▶
Toponymic Footprint 28,831 place names from NGA GNS

Which languages name the landscape here, and in which writing systems. A language's toponymic footprint and its speaker population are different measures and often diverge. Counts include variant and foreign-language renderings of the same place, so a language can rank high because outside sources record names in it rather than because it is spoken locally — and a widely spoken language can be almost absent where official naming is in another language.

LanguagePlace names Share*Script
French (fra) 389 50.1% —
Dutch (nld) 277 35.6% —
English (eng) 70 9.0% —
German (deu) 40 5.1% —
Latin (lat) 1 0.1% —

20,589 distinct features · 5 languages · 0 scripts · 11 conventional English names
Source: NGA GEOnet Names Server (public domain) · rebuilt Wed, 05 Aug 2026.
* Shares are of the 777 names that carry a language code; the remaining 28,054 of 28,831 are unattributed, so these percentages do not divide into the headline count. Names follow the US/BGN convention.

Data Sources (11)

The data providers this country's datasets are sourced from — each links out to the provider.

SourceTypeAccess
Eurostat official_nso api
INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) international_organization api
Google commercial bulk_download
NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) official_government bulk_download
D-PLACE (Database of Places, Language, Culture & Environment) academic bulk_download
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) international_organization api
Glottolog Language Catalog academic bulk_download
World Bank Open Data international_organization api
LandScan Global (ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory) research_institution earth_engine
GHS Urban Centre Database (Global Human Settlement · EU Joint Research Centre) international_organization bulk_download
OpenFactBook community_compilation bulk_download

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