Arrondissements of

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are

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below the provinces of Belgium. There are administrative, judicial and electoral arrondissements. These may or may not relate to identical geographical areas. Belgium, a federalized state, geographically consists of three

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, of which only

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and

Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—alo ...

are subdivided into five

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each;

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

is neither a province nor is it part of one.

Administrative

The 43 administrative arrondissements are an administrative level between the

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and the provinces. Brussels-Capital forms a single arrondissement for all 19 municipalities in the region by that name. As an exception, the arrondissement of Verviers has two NUTS codes: BE335 for the French-speaking part and BE336 for the German-speaking part. The latter is identical to the area of the German-speaking community.

Judicial

Belgische Gerechtelijke Arrondissementen (2012)

Belgium has 12 judicial arrondissements: * The arrondissement Liège covers the French-speaking part of the province of Liège * The arrondissement Eupen covers the German-speaking part of the province of Liège * The arrondissement Brussels covers the Capital Region and the administrative arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde (western part of Flemish Brabant province) * The arrondissement Leuven covers the administrative arrondissement of Leuven (eastern part of Flemish Brabant province) * The remaining 8 arrondissements are coterminous with, and have the same names as, the remaining 8 provinces Until March 31, 2014 Belgium had 27 judicial arrondissements. These are now sections of today's 12 judicial arrondissements. In addition, the arrondissement Brussels was divided into the sections Brussels and Halle-Vilvoorde.

Electoral

Until the end of 1999 the electoral districts for the election of the parliaments were ''electoral arrondissements''; since the start of 2000 these are the ten ''

''. The arrondissement of Brussels-Capital (geographically coinciding with the

Brussels-Capital Region Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

) is not part of any province and consequently forms its own electoral district. As the only part of Belgium, the

Parliament of Wallonia The Parliament of Wallonia (french: Parlement de Wallonie) (Walloon Parliament (french: Parlement wallon) in the decrees) is the legislative body of Wallonia, one of the three self-governing regions of Belgium (the other two being Flanders and t ...

still uses electoral arrondissements. Each electoral arrondissement consists of at least one (administrative) arrondissement. There were previously 13 such electoral districts, but they have since been reduced to 11. Each of these electoral districts take their names from the arrondissements they consist of, usually decreasing in order of population.

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Administrative

Judicial

Electoral

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