Belgium
Western Europe · Brussels
Everything Mapfold knows about Belgium, and the 4 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Belgium in figures
- Capital
- Brussels
- Region
- Western Europe
- Area
- 30,528 km²
- Population
- 11,941,781
- Density
- 391.2 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 4
- Coast
- Has a coast
- Highest point
- 694 m
- Mean temperature
- 10.7 °C
- Life expectancy
- 82.3 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 60,750
- Urban
- 87.7 %
- Forest
- 22.6 %
Belgium in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Belgium answers to it. This is not a fact about Belgium so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Belgium
4 answers are enough to leave Belgium alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It uses the euro.
25 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
Less than 30% of it is forest.
7 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
More than ten million people live there.
2 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 4
It is smaller than Belgium.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Belgium unusual
It uses the euro.
25 of 192 countriesGDP per head is above $40,000.
29 of 192 countriesIts centre lies north of 45°N.
32 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- ECONOMY
It uses the euro.
25 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $40,000.
29 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies north of 45°N.
32 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in Europe.
44 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages under 12 °C all year.
49 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is denser than 150 people per square kilometre.
56 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is smaller than Belgium.
57 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is below 2,000 m.
74 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $12,000.
78 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is above 75.
85 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 100,000 km².
85 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages cooler than 22 °C all year.
88 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 30% of it is forest.
92 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies west of 20°E.
95 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than ten million people live there.
95 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
133 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at least two countries.
138 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Asia.
146 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It has at least one land neighbour.
155 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than a million people live there.
156 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 60% of it is forest.
166 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Belgium compares
- Bigger than Lesotho
- Smaller than Moldova
- More people than Haiti
- Fewer people than South Sudan
- 136th largest of 192 by area
- 81st by population, of 192
Which countries border Belgium
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