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Forest
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municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Key facts
- Country
- Belgium
- Community
- Flemish Community , French Community
- Region
- Brussels-Capital
- Arrondissement
- Brussels-Capital
- Mayor
- Charles Spapens ( PS )
- Governing party
- PS - Vooruit / PTB / Ecolo - Groen
- Total
- 6.29 km (2.43 sq mi)
- Density
- 9,000/km (23,300/sq mi)
- Area codes
- 02
- Website
- forest.brussels
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Belgium
- Official name
- Gemeente Vorst
- Demonym
- Vorstenaar
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 56581
- Area
- 6.30
- Elevation
- 38
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Uccle
- Official website
- vorst.brussels
- Image
- VorstGemeentehuis.JPG
- Dialing code
- 02
- Patron saint
- Alena
Show 12 more facts
- postal code
- 1190
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Forest (Brussels)
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Forest, Belgium
- native label
- Vorst
- Commons category
- Forest (Brussels)
- topic's main category
- Category:Forest, Belgium
- annual number of weddings
- 145
- twinned administrative body
- Courbevoie
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-2-370-22-11
- P12674
- condensation
- P13200
- May
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Encyclopedic overview
Forest (French, pronounced [fɔʁɛ] ) or Vorst (Dutch, pronounced [vɔrst] ), is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the southern part of the region, it is bordered by Anderlecht, Ixelles, Uccle, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the Flemish municipality of Drogenbos. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).
As of 1 January 2022, the municipality had a population of 56,616 inhabitants. The total area is 6.29 km (2.43 sq mi), which gives a population density of 8,998/km (23,300/sq mi).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.