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Largest cities in Belgium

Antwerp, Belgium has the highest population of the 30 cities compared: 562,002 people (Statbel (Belgian statistical office), 2025-12-31).

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Belgium cities ranked by their own published resident population.

Items compared
30
Countries represented
1
Last checked
2026-08-04

Source-backed answers

Compare each answer with its unit and checked date; the complete source ledger is below.

Showing all 30 rows

Original rankCity or placePublished valueSource and scope
1Antwerp, Belgium562,002 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
2Gent, Belgium272,657 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
3Charleroi, Belgium206,900 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
4Bruxelles, Belgium198,674 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
5Liège, Belgium198,102 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
6Anderlecht, Belgium129,600 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
7Schaerbeek, Belgium129,278 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
8Brugge, Belgium120,283 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
9Namur, Belgium115,457 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
10Leuven, Belgium104,906 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
11Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium98,411 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
12Aalst, Belgium92,131 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
13Hasselt, Belgium90,914 people2026-07-14
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
14Mechelen, Belgium89,655 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
15Ixelles, Belgium89,162 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
16Uccle, Belgium87,548 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
17Sint-Niklaas, Belgium82,661 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
18La Louvière, Belgium81,751 people2026-07-14
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
19Genk, Belgium68,101 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
20Roeselare, Belgium66,888 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
21Seraing, Belgium64,764 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
22Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium60,979 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
23Forest, Belgium58,675 people2026-08-04
Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
24Verviers, Belgium56,182 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
25Jette, Belgium54,330 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
26Lokeren, Belgium50,897 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
27Etterbeek, Belgium49,638 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
28Beringen, Belgium49,034 people2026-07-14
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
29Saint-Gilles, Belgium48,756 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01
30Turnhout, Belgium48,490 people2026-07-12
Source Scope: municipality · Period: 2026-01-01

What the numbers say

  • Antwerp, Belgium leads at 562,002 people.
  • Turnhout, Belgium sits at the other end with 48,490 people.
  • The middle of this ranking is 89,162 people, across 30 places that publish the metric.
  • The spread between first and last is 513,512 people.

Quick answer

What does Largest cities in Belgium show?

Antwerp, Belgium has the highest population of the 30 cities compared: 562,002 people (Statbel (Belgian statistical office), 2025-12-31).

How this list is built

Every row is a published population observation measured in people, ranked highest first. The values were observed between 2025 and 2026. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 20,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.

  • Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
  • A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.
Rows
30 places
Geographic grain
2 grains: city, municipality
Observation period
2025-12-31 to 2026-01-01
Last checked
2026-08-04
With an official source link
30 of 30

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, September 29). Largest cities in Belgium [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 2d2142fc57f73dfbe5401eeea32351bd]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/belgium-largest-cities/ Retrieved 2026-09-29. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX citation
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_largest-cities-in-belgium_a5d8f6a5f8d0,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Largest cities in Belgium},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-09-29},
  version = {2d2142fc57f73dfbe5401eeea32351bd},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/reports/belgium-largest-cities/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-09-29. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
Markdown citation
[Largest cities in Belgium](https://immigrationdb.com/reports/belgium-largest-cities/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version 2d2142fc57f73dfbe5401eeea32351bd; retrieved 2026-09-29; built 2026-09-29.

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Sources

  1. Statbel (Belgian statistical office)Statbel (Belgian statistical office) · Checked 2026-08-04
  2. Belgium official denominator sourcestatbel.fgov.be · Checked 2026-07-12