Belgium's highest point is the Signal de Botrange at 694 metres above the sea level.

This made him top goal scorer for group three and tied him with Belgium's Wesley Sonck for second highest goal scorer for the European Zone of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification.

Belgium's southernmost point is situated in the municipality, at Torgny.

Some older constitutions ( for example, Australia's 1900 text, and Belgium's 1830 text ) do not mention the office of Prime minister at all, the office becoming a de facto reality without formal constitutional status.

For his military service, he received 18 decorations, medals and awards, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star with Valor device, Purple Heart, World War II Victory Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Belgium's Order of the Crown and France's Croix de Guerre.

163 Belgian troops were rescued during the Dunkirk evacuation, and Belgium's new navy, the Corps de Marine, only reformed in 1939, also participated.

File: Le pavillon de la Belgique à l ' exposition universelle de Paris en 1900. jpg | Belgium's pavilion

Belgium's de facto independence had been established through nine years of intermittent fighting, the Belgian Revolution.

Born in Belgium to Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend, daughter of Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, and Belgian Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d ’ Altena, head of Belgium's military intelligence for the government-in-exile during World War II, Arnaud de Borchgrave was educated in Belgium, Britain and the United States.

The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university.

He also received France's Croix de Guerre and Belgium's Croix de Guerre.

" C ' est Ma Chanson " reached # 1 Interprètes: TEREZA, Les Compagnons de la Chanson, Pétula Clark in France and # 3 on the chart for Belgium's French-speaking sector, also reaching # 10 on Belgium's Dutch chart where the English version had hit # 1 ; total sales of the French language version were reported as 500, 000.

It was owned jointly by the Société Générale de Belgique, Belgium's largest holding company ( which controlled 70 % of the Congolese economy ) and Tanganyika Concessions Ltd.

Although most of the province, including the fortress city of Venlo, at the time Belgium's northernmost fortress, was under Belgian control following Belgium's de facto independence after French intervention, the city of Maastricht remained in Dutch hands.

* Mark Morris-Modern American dancer, choreographer and director, founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group ; Director of Dance at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium's national opera house ; co-founder of the White Oak Dance Project.

Belgium's major news agency is Belga ( news agency ).

Brussels Airport is Belgium's biggest airport.

With 240, 191 inhabitants in the beginning of 2009, Ghent is Belgium's second largest municipality by number of inhabitants.

Ringwood Brewery founder, Peter Austin, is thought to be an influence on Britain's craft brewery rebirth in much the same way that Fritz Maytag of San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company and Pierre Celis of Belgium's Hoegaarden Brewery were to their countries.

* May 23 – Belgium's SABENA Airlines is created.

In recent years, an unofficial short version of the anthem is sung during Belgian National Day on July 21 yearly, combining the words of the anthem in all three of Belgium's official languages, similar to the bilingual version of O Canada.

In December 1999, the Belgian Federal Government announced that it would again pursue an active foreign policy, particularly in Central Africa where among others Belgium's former colony, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is situated.

This was unprecedented ; although Baudoin was nominally Belgium's chief executive, Royal Assent has long been a formality ( as is the case in most constitutional and popular monarchies ).

As a hereditary constitutional monarchy system, the role and operation of Belgium's monarchy is governed by the Constitution.

Since he is bound by the Constitution ( above all other ideological and religious considerations, political opinions and debates and economic interests ) the King acts as an arbiter and guardian of Belgium's unity and independence.

It is this family name which is used on the identity cards and in all official documents by Belgium's royalty ( e. g. marriage licenses ).

This is where much of Belgium's wildlife can be found.

Belgium's public debt is about 99 % of GDP.

About 80 % of Belgium's trade is with fellow EU member states.

For example, it is home to Belgium's main airport.

Due to Belgium's often-complicated politics, restructuring has led to decisions seen by some as illogical, such as the decision to mount the ( very uncommon ) CMI 90 mm cannon on the Piranha 3 ( munition is very scarce and only made by a handful of manufacturers ; it will probably be supplied by Mécar ).

One of Belgium's finest conservatories is based in Leuven: the Lemmens Institute, which is described as " Faculty of Music, Performing Arts and Education ".

It stands on the bank of the river Schelde opposite the confluence of the eponymous Rupel, and is famed for its sundials as well as having what is probably Belgium's only tidemill.

In Europe, for example Belgium's Royal Military Academy, military science remains an academic discipline, and is studied alongside Social Sciences, including such subjects as Humanitarian law.

Today, Belgium's beer category called " abbey " is thriving-with several beers brewed under similar licenses to Leffe as well as abbey beers named after abbey ruins or abbeys that no longer exist.

It is Belgium's most important fishing port and the wholesale fish market located there is one of the largest in Europe.

The reassignment of the area is strongly opposed by most Flemish people, their politicians and their institutions, who argue that the borders of Belgium's regions should not be changed simply because many people move from one region to another.

The Brussels capital region, a densely built-up area consisting of 19 communes including the capital city Brussels, became one of Belgium's three regions after the country was turned into a federation in 1970.

The city is in the centre of Belgium's fruit producing region, Haspengouw ( Hesbaye ), and is renowned for its pears, apples ( Jonagold ), and sweet cherries.

In the mid-1920s, there were secret negotiations between Germany and the kingdom of Belgium that seemed to be inclined to sell the region back to Germany as a way to improve Belgium's finances.

According to Philippe Suinen, it is an exception among federal States, and, as pointed out recently by Michel Quévit, a quasi-State: " From 1831, the year of Belgium's independence, until the federalization of the country in 1970, Wallonia has increasingly asserted itself as a region in its own right .".

The song reached number two on the Ultratip chart of Belgium's Wallonia region, and number forty-six on the Belgium Flanders Ultratop 50 chart.