Name: 地理Now!ベルギー (Geography Now! Belgium)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:05:04.000Z
Duration: 10 min 59 s
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Once upon a time, France had a son named Wallonia

and the Nederlands had a son named Flanders

One day a bunch of crazy stuff happened in Europe blablabla

but I kinda need another guy to help me pay for the rent

I don't know, you're kind of a cool guy, I guess, would you like to be my roommate?

But, just for the record, I don't speak any Dutch

And that is how Belgium became a country, kind of

Hey everybody I'm your host, Paul Barbado

you've all probably at least heard of the name Belgium

First of all, the flag of Belgium looks like the flag of Germany knocked over to the left side

But just keep in mind the color sequence is black-yellow-red not black-red-yellow

Also the flag has an unusual proportion of 13 to 15 making it almost a square

The flag's colors are direcrly corolated to the country's code of arms

The black representing the shield and the determination

And the red representing the lion's claws and tongue and the crown

Speaking of strength, you gonna need a lot of it

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If you gonna learn anything about Belgium

First of all, Belgium is located in Europe

Right under the Netherlands and northeast of France

Right at the foot of the North Sea, next to the English Channel

In the most fundamental way I can put this

The Dutch or the Flemish speaking north region called Flanders

The south or French Walloon region called Wallonia

And the capital Brussels acts in itself as a third region

And functions in a completely bilingual way

Most of the people in Brussels speak both, Dutch and French

However, French is a little bit more prevalent

Each of the Flanders and the Wallonia regions are then divided in 5 provinces each

Brussels doesn't count and it's considered its own region

Not belonging to either Flanders or Wallonia

Even though, if technically it's completely ingulfed in Flanders

But then again the region around Brussels

Has a French administrative area around the city

Called the "BHV", or the "Brussel Halle Vilvoorde" County

In which large numbers of French minorities live

Still with me? Good, because it gets even crazier

The French also have administrative centres in the southeast and the southwest regions of Flanders

And a Walloonian municipal exclave in the west Flanders province

Even though, most of the people there speak Dutch

Furthermore, the Flemish have one municipal exclave in the "Liège" Province in Wallonia

Then you have the German speaking minority in the east of Wallonia

Who are making propositions to create an 11th province

A lot of weird territorial claims and boundaries

For one, there are technically five German exclaves

Hidden right along the border of the "Liège" province in east Belgium

However, these exclaves are only separated from mainland Germany

And you have only 10 metres between you and Belgium

The smallest of these German exclaves is just a small house near the German town of "Konzen"

With a front yard less than two hectares in area

Then you reach the ever so confusing town of "Baarle Nassau / Hertog"

In which there are 22 Belgian enclaves in the Netherlands

A part of the Netherlands in Belgium in the Netherlands

Apperently, they cross awkardly through streets, buildings, restaurants, stores

A person can literally wake up in one country

The rule is: Whatever side your front door is on

is the country that you pay your taxes to

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