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Belgian people

Belgians
Belgen / Belges / Belgier
Total population
c. 11.5–12 million
Regions with significant populations
 Belgium 10,839,905
(Belgian nationality only, 1 January 2014)
 United States 352,630
 Canada 176,615
 France 133,066
 Netherlands 60,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo DR Congo 60,000
 Germany 20,000–50,000
 Brazil 6,000
Languages
Dutch, French, German
(also other Languages of Belgium)
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Minority: Protestantism, Judaism and Islam
Related ethnic groups
other Germanic and Latin peoples
(especially French, Dutch, Luxembourgers and Germans)

Belgians (Dutch: Belgen, French: Belges, German: Belgier) are the citizens and natives of the Kingdom of Belgium, a federal state in Western Europe. Majority of Belgians belong to two distinct ethnic groups native to the country, Flemings who speak Dutch in the north, on the border with the Netherlands, and Walloons who speak French and/or Walloon to the south, on the border with France. There is also a substantial Belgian diaspora, settling primarily the United States, Canada and France.

Belgians are a relatively "new" people. The 1830 revolution led to the establishment of an independent country under a provisional government and a national congress. The Belgian people are descendants of the Celtic Belgae and Germanic peoples such as the Frisians, Franks, and the Saxons. The name "Belgium" was adopted for the country, the word being derived from Gallia Belgica, a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul that, before Roman invasion in 100 BC, was inhabited by the Belgae, a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples.


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