page_title: Flemish Brabant
section_title: Municipalities
hierarchical_section_title: Flemish Brabant / Municipalities
caption_attribution_description: English: Location of Arrondissement Halle-Vilvoorde in Belgium.
context_page_description: Flemish Brabant is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut and East Flanders. Flemish Brabant also surrounds the Brussels-Capital Region. Its capital is Leuven. It has an area of 2,118 km² which is divided into two administrative districts containing 65 municipalities. As of January 2019, Flemish Brabant has a population of 1,146,175.
  Flemish Brabant was created in 1995 by the splitting of the former province of Brabant into three parts: two new provinces, Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant; and the Brussels-Capital Region, which no longer belongs to any province. The split was made to accommodate the eventual division of Belgium in three regions.
  It is a province with a rich cultural history and a great diversity of typical products, among them several of the world-famous Belgian beers.
  The province is made up of two arrondissements. The Halle-Vilvoorde Arrondissement has Brussels in its middle and is therefore mainly a residential area, even though it also has large industrial zones and contains Belgium's main airport.
context_section_description: Flemish Brabant has 65 municipalities: 35 in the Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde and 30 in Leuven.
caption: Map showing the location of the Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde
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