Belgium...
(The Belgian Flag, not to be mistaken with the German one!)
Some information
Languages: Dutch, French and German
Captial: Brussels (from the sprouts!)
Inhabitants: 11.5 Million
Being an independent country since July the 21 of 1830.
What are we famous for?
- waffles;
- chocolate;
- urbex;
- our regretfull colonial days in Congo;
- belgian fries.
History
Beglium was a part of The netherlands under the rule of Willam I, until they took up arms and formed their own independent country.
Since then Belgians discoverd lots of new things and were one of the first 6 EU countries in the world!
Some inventions
- the contraceptive pill;
- the saxophone;
- the praline;
- co-invented the World Wide Web;
- a lot of cartoons (ex.: tintin, smurfs,..)
- roller skates!
