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| • | Belgium is a federal state and is composed of three Communities, three Regions, and four linguistic regions. Two of the three regions each comprise five provinces, making a total of ten provinces. Belgium also comprises 589 municipalities. These are the five most important subdivisions of Belgium, as laid out into the Belgian constitution (as far as the first four subdivisions are concerned) and law (as far as the municipalities are concerned). Other less important subdivisions include for instance the intra-municipal districts, the electoral, judicial and police districts, as well as the new inter-municipal police zones (lower level than the police districts).
All these subdivisions have geographical boundaries: the Regions, the linguistic regions, the Communities, the provinces and the municipalities. The division by communities is equally geographically delimited: The Flemish government has legal authority (for its Community competencies) only within the areas of the Flemish and Brussels region; the French-speaking Community analogously has powers only within the areas of the Walloon and Brussels region. Belgian Communities do not officially refer directly to groups of people -there is indeed no subnationality in Brussels - but rather to the political, linguistic and cultural competencies of the country.
Of these communities, only the Flemings have 'some' exclusive territory (the Flemish region for the Flemish community and the Walloon for the French-speaking community). All Communities thus have a precise and legally established area where they can exert their competencies: the Flemish Community is competent in the Flemish and Brussels regions; the French-speaking Community in the Walloon and Brussels regions, and the German Community only in a small part of the province of Liège (Wallonia), bordering with Germany.
The three regions are the Brussels-Capital Region, the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region.
The three communities are:
· the French-speaking Communauté Française ("French Community")
Source: [wikipedia: communities, regions and provinces of belgium]
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