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Baarle-Hertog is a municipality
Municipality

A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....
 located in the Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 province of Antwerp
Antwerp (province)

Antwerp is the northernmost provinces of regions in Belgium both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Limburg , Flemish Brabant and East Flanders....
. The municipality only comprises the town of Baarle-Hertog proper. On January 1 2006 Baarle-Hertog had a total population of 2,306. The total area is 7.48 kmē which gives a population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 of 308 inhabitants per kmē.

Baarle-Hertog is noted for its complicated borders with Baarle-Nassau
Baarle-Nassau

Baarle-Nassau is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands.It is closely linked, with complicated borders, to the Belgium exclaves of Baarle-Hertog....
 in the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
. In total it consists of 24 separate pieces of land.






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Baarle-Hertog is a municipality
Municipality

A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....
 located in the Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 province of Antwerp
Antwerp (province)

Antwerp is the northernmost provinces of regions in Belgium both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Limburg , Flemish Brabant and East Flanders....
. The municipality only comprises the town of Baarle-Hertog proper. On January 1 2006 Baarle-Hertog had a total population of 2,306. The total area is 7.48 kmē which gives a population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 of 308 inhabitants per kmē.

Baarle-Hertog is noted for its complicated borders with Baarle-Nassau
Baarle-Nassau

Baarle-Nassau is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands.It is closely linked, with complicated borders, to the Belgium exclaves of Baarle-Hertog....
 in the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
. In total it consists of 24 separate pieces of land. Apart from the main piece (called Zondereigen) located north of the Belgian town of Merksplas
Merksplas

Merksplas is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp . The municipality comprises only the town of Merksplas proper. On January 1 2006 Merksplas had a total population of 8,173....
, there are twenty Belgian exclave
Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
s in the Netherlands and three other pieces on the Dutch-Belgian border. There are also seven Dutch exclaves within the Belgian exclaves. Six of them are located in the largest one and a seventh in the second-largest one. An eighth Dutch exclave lies in Zondereigen.

The border is so complicated that there are some houses that are divided between the two countries. There was a time when according to Dutch laws restaurants had to close earlier. For some restaurants on the border it meant that the clients simply had to change their tables to the Belgian side.



Famous inhabitants

  • Petrus Christus
    Petrus Christus

    Petrus Christus was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444....
    , 15th century painter


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  • -- see video of Baarle-Hartog in middle of page