Les régions urbaines en Belgique

The Belgian urban regions were defined for the first time in the early 1970s. Later on they were updated based on the censuses of 1981, 1991 and 2001. The current update is based on administrative data varying between 2014 and 2017. In 2017, 19 cities in Belgium developed an urban region with on the one hand an agglomeration (a zone of uninterrupted built environment) and on the other hand an urban fringe (a zone of more dispersed residential settlements but with a strong focus of the population on the agglomeration). The Belgian urban regions concentrate 56% of the population and 64% of the e... Mehr ...