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The '''City of Brussels'''{{efn|name=fn1|{{lang-fr|Ville de Bruxelles}} {{IPA-fr|vil də bʁysɛl|}} or alternatively ''Bruxelles-Ville'' {{IPA-fr|bʁysɛl vil|}}; {{lang-nl|Stad Brussel}} {{IPA-nl|stɑd ˈbrʏsəl|}} or ''Brussel-Stad'' {{IPA-nl|ˌbrʏsəl ˈstɑt|}}}} is the largest [[List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region|municipality]] and historical [[City centre|centre]] of the [[Brussels|Brussels-Capital Region]], as well as the capital of the [[Flemish Region]] (from which it is [[List of capitals outside the territories they serve|separate]]) and [[Belgium]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Belgian Constitution|date=May 2014|publisher=Belgian House of Representatives|location=Brussels, Belgium|page=63|url=http://www.const-court.be/en/basic_text/belgian_constitution.pdf|access-date=10 September 2015|archive-date=10 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810142522/http://www.const-court.be/en/basic_text/belgian_constitution.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the [[European Union]], as it hosts a number of principal [[Institutions of the European Union|EU institutions]] in its [[Brussels and the European Union#European Quarter|European Quarter]].{{sfn|Demey|2007}}<ref name="12010E/PRO/06">{{cite web |date=30 March 2010 |title=Protocol (No 6) on the location of the seats of the institutions and of certain bodies, offices, agencies and departments of the European Union, Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, OJ C 83, 30.3.2010, p. 265–265 |url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2010:083:SOM:EN:HTML |access-date=3 August 2010 |publisher=EUR-Lex |archive-date=20 May 2013 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6Gkuh3sUu?url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2010:083:SOM:EN:HTML |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|name=fn2|Brussels is not [[de jure|formally declared]] capital of the EU, though its position is spelled out in the [[Treaty of Amsterdam]].}}

 

 

{{As of|2023|1|1}}, the City of Brussels had a population of 194,291 inhabitants. The total area is {{convert|33.09|km2|abbr=on}} which gives a [[population density]] of {{convert|5704|PD/km2|abbr=on}}. As of 2007, there were 75,998 registered non-Belgians in the City.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dofi.ibz.be/fr | title=Immigration Office &#124; IBZ }}</ref> In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally [[Multilingualism|bilingual]] (French–Dutch).