BRUSSELS-CAPITAL REGION

French Rgion Bruxelles-Capitale, Flemish Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Gewest region, north-central Belgium. The region is coextensive with Greater Brussels, a metropolitan area that contains the capital city of Brussels. Brussels was one of three self-governing regions created in 1995 along ethnic-linguistic lines: the French-speaking Wallonia (Walloon Region), the Flemish-speaking Flanders (Flemish Region), and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. The Brussels-Capital Region has its own elected regional assembly and is composed of 19 administratively autonomous communes, or municipalities. Area 62 square miles (161 square km). Pop. (1994 est.) 949,070.