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Belgium, we like cycling, beer (we have the best beer in the world), fries (which we invented, not France!) and chocolate (we also have the best chocolate in the world :p).

We hold the world record for longest time without a government. We're a super small country, but we speak 3 different languages (Dutch, French and German). There's an ongoing struggle between the Flemish and Walloons. Oh, and New York? That was founded by Belgians. Wall Street is named after the Walloons.

We colonized Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and a small part of Tianjin (China) in the 19th-20th century. A total area that is 70 times the size of Belgium.

Ludwig van Beethoven is of Flemish descent and I'm directly related to him (I'm a historian who researched his family history in the archives).