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Brussels is capital city of the centre of Belgium as well as the largest municipality of the Brusseles-Capial Region. The Region of Brussels-Capital, from the administrative point of view it is a region precisely like Flanders and Vallonia, and from the geographic point of view is an enclave of the Flanders. The regions are a component of the complex Belgian founding, the three community: the population of Brussels has to do with the Community francofone of the Belgium or with the Flemish Community, for matters checking arguments like culture and training. The city of Brussels which is one of 19 municipalities that make-up up the Brussels-Capital Region with a total population of 1,024,492 inhabitants. The municipality has a population of about 140,000. Brussels is officially bilingual French and Dutch. A linguistic curiosity is the "Marollien" dialect, based on the Walloon of Liége and heavily influenced by the general (Dutch) Brussels dialect, which used to be spoken mostly in a central section of the city. The region of Brussels is officially bilingual, but the majority of its population speaks French (85-90%). Small community of immigrants preserve their native language: berberi, Arabic, Italians, Spanishes and other, but the big part of these speaks also in French.  It exists a solid French population of language in the periphery of Brussels, a zone that officially does part of the Flanders. In the greater part of the adjoining municipality to the Region of Brussels-Capital, the French population of language is absolutely majority. Two of the main institutions of the European Union – the European Commission and the Council of the European Union – have their headquarters in Brussels. The third institution, the European Parliament also has a parliamentary chamber in Brussels. Brussels is also the political seats of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO), the Western European Union(WEU) and EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. For this motive is often cautious (together with Strasbourg and Luxemburg) like the capital of the European union. |