Brussels

Belgium

The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of Belgium. It is additionally the capital of the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Community, and the Flemish Region. The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions in its European Quarter.

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Country: Belgium
Population: 1,743,000
Latitude: 50.84° N
Longitude: 4.33° E

Which way is Brussels from…

From Paris, Brussels lies at 32° to the north-east, 262 km as the crow flies.

Paris	32° north-east	262 km
London	102° east	320 km
New York	51° north-east	5,888 km
Madrid	26° north-east	1,314 km
Rome	331° north-west	1,173 km
Montreal	54° north-east	5,534 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	330° north-west	9,407 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Brussels is just 320 km from London, east, at 102°. From Montreal, a flat map would put it east, at 84°; the compass says 54°, north-east. To place the Belgian capital, remember that it shares the latitude of Prague and Kyiv, and that Amsterdam is 173 km to the north.