Beautifully diverse Brussels

They say Paris will make you a Parisian, and London will shape you into a Londoner. But Brussels? Brussels invites you to be yourself.

Its streets hum with over a hundred languages. Walk through any neighbourhood and you’ll hear English mingling with Dutch, French flowing into Spanish, and the occasional laughter in Russian, Mandarin, or Romanian. With over 184 nationalities calling Brussels home, it’s less a city, and more a living mosaic of the world.

More than 80% of its people have a migration background, and over 60% were born beyond Belgium’s borders. But here, those numbers don’t divide—they shape the city’s identity. Diversity isn’t just tolerated, it’s celebrated. It lives in the scent of Moroccan spices drifting from a corner café, in Congolese music pulsing from an open window, in the colourful festivals and multilingual conversations that fill the city’s parks and public transportation.

As the de facto capital of Europe, and home to the European Union and NATO, Brussels also naturally draws diplomats, expats, dreamers, and drifters alike. 

In Brussels, you don’t have to fit in to feel at home. You just have to show up as you are.