1. CIA The World Factbook, 2005

2. Belgian economy. Belgian federal ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation.

3. Nuttall encyclopedia

4. Language dispute divides Belgium, BBC News, 13 May, 2005

5. Election turnout in national lower house elections from 1960 to 1995, numbers from Mark N. Franklin's "Electoral Participation".

6. Constitution of Belgium Art. 99

7. Belgium's "rainbow" coalition sworn in, BBC News, 12 July, 1999

8. Composition of the Chamber of Representatives, on the official homepage of the Chamber, in French

9. Court rules Vlaams Blok is racist, BBC News, 9 November, 2004

10. Dioxin contamination scandal hits Belgium: Effects spread through European Union and beyond, World Socialist Web Site, 8 June, 1999

11. History of the Federal Food Agency, at its official homepage

12. The Rwanda article at Tiscali.References shows an example of Belgium's recent African policies.

13. The official homepage of Flanders (Community and Region)

14. Eurometeo: The meteo at Brussels

15. Pearce, Fred (2003-03-05). Sewage-laden Belgian water worst in world. New Scientist. Retrieved on May 9, 2006.

16. US Department of State's report

17. [1].

18. National Bank of Belgium

19. Official statistics of Belgium

20. United Nation Development Programme

21. Ethnologue.com published by SIL International

22. Statistics (PDF).

23. International Religious Freedom Report 2004 at the US Department of State

24. Inquiry by 'Vepec', 'Vereniging voor Promotie en Communicatie' (Organisation for Promotion and Communication), published in Knack magazine 22 November 2006 p.14 [The Dutch language term 'gelovig' is in the text translated as 'religious', more precisely it is a very common word for believing in particular in any kind of God in a monotheistic sense, and/or in some afterlife].

25. Digest of Education Statistics 2003, US National Education Statistics

26. United Nation Development Programme

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