BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Belgian Emigrants Abroad and Their Descendants The Belgian Emigrants Found a New Life in ... the following Countries of Immigration

Introduction

At any moment in history people did emigrate from or immigarte to what's now known as the Kingdom of Belgium. Our site will focus on those who emigrated.

No exact figurs are available for the past. Georges Picavet has assembled some interesting, but incomplete, figures on the page "Antwerp, a Port for all nationalities".

For the present we do have some recent figures (2001). There are 560.000 Belgians living outside the country at this moment.

From them reside in:

France	172.526
Netherlands	66.500
South-Africa	55.200
Canada	40.875
USA	32.500
Spain	28.400
Germany	26.313
Luxembourg	17.800
other	120.000

Europe

• European Union
  • Austria
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France (FRA)
  • Germany (DEU)
  • Greece
  • Great Britain (GBR)
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Luxembourg (LUX)
  • The Netherlands (NDL)
  • Portugal (PRT)
    • Azores (AZR)
  • Spain (ESP)
    • Canary Islands

      History 1479-1660 (KMLA)

      Flemish immigration in the 16th century (Dutch)

  • Sweden (SWE)
• Other
  • Hungary (HUN)
  • Malta (MLT)
  • Norway (NOR)
  • Russian Federation (RUS)
  • Switzerland,

The Americas

• North America
  • Canada (CAN)
  • United States of America (USA)
• Central America
  • Guatemala (GTM)
  • Mexico (MEX)
• South America
  • Argentina (ARG)
  • Brazil (BRA)
  • Chile
    • GENEALOGIA de Mi Familia y de Chile by Mauricio Pilleux Cepeda (Spanish)
  • Ecuador (ECU)
  • Uruguay
    • Beauvois (BEL -> Uruguay)

Africa

• Burundi (BDI)
• Congo (Kinshasa) (ZAR)
• Rwanda (RWA)
• South-Africa (ZAF)

Asia

• China
  • Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation
• India (IND)
  • FAM: CAVEYS in Belgium and India
• Indonesia (IDN)

Oceania

• Australia (AUS)
• New-Zealand (NZL) - Belgian colonization attempt around 1840

Antartica (ATA)

No permanent inhabitants, but Belgium did play a role in the discovery of this continent.

Belgium's Antarctic History

Belgica

This web site is the collective work of the subscribers to the mail list BELGIUM-ROOTS-L founded June 1998 by Georges Picavet (see our members page and the copyrights page for more info) Q:\webbeta\rw_belgiumroots\countries.html (br_world) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:49:27 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:12:24 MST