Belgium Crossword Puzzle for Kids
Free printable educational crossword puzzle. Every clue is a plain-English sentence from the Simple English Wikipedia article on Belgium, with the key word blanked out.
Belgium Crossword
Name: ____________________ Date: ______________
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Across
- 2. There have been many _____ to painting and architecture. (8 letters)
- 3. In 1908 the Belgian state took control of the colony after a _____ about the deaths. (7 letters)
- 4. Flanders and Wallonia are both split up into _____ provinces each. (4 letters)
- 5. Belgium _____ the 1972 European Football Championships. (6 letters)
- 8. The opening _____ of the war were very bad in Belgium. (6 letters)
- 12. The central _____ are part of the Anglo-Belgian Basin. (7 letters)
- 14. To look after all these groups, Belgium has a complex system of government with highly _____ regions. (10 letters)
Down
- 1. Wallonia is the name of the southern _____ of Belgium, just north of France. (4 letters)
- 6. In February 2014, Belgium became the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia without any age _____. (6 letters)
- 7. There is a _____ part of Wallonia next to the border with Germany where the people speak German. (5 letters)
- 9. After World War II, the people made king Leopold III leave his _____ in 1951. (6 letters)
- 10. It used to be Dutch-_____, but today French is spoken more often, but with some Dutch still present. (8 letters)
- 11. Its capital, _____, is the home of many organizations, including the European Union and NATO. (8 letters)
- 13. Several examples of major architectural places in Belgium belong to _____'s World Heritage List. (6 letters)
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Belgium Word Search
Name: ____________________ Date: ______________
Words to Find
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Pick the word that completes each sentence from the Simple English Wikipedia article.
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Click a clue, then click the word it belongs to.
Unscramble each word. The clue is the sentence it was taken from.
How to Solve & Use the Answer Key
This is a fill-in crossword. Each clue is a sentence from the Simple English Wikipedia article on Belgium, with the key term blanked out. The number in parentheses shows the letter count. Solve interactively on screen or check Show answers to view the answer key. To print a clean student worksheet, press Print Puzzle.
Belgium Crossword Answer Key & Definitions
Show Complete Answers & Word Definitions
- 2 Across: ADDITION — Not to be confused with building extensions which are also called additions. Simple English Wikipedia: Addition
- 3 Across: SCANDAL — A scandal is a very public incident which involves a claim of wrong-doing, shame, or moral offence. Simple English Wikipedia: Scandal
- 4 Across: FIVE — The number five is a number that comes after four, followed by six, then seven. Simple English Wikipedia: 5 (number)
- 5 Across: HOSTED
- 8 Across: MONTHS — A month is an amount of time used with calendars. Simple English Wikipedia: Month
- 12 Across: PLATEAU — The biggest and tallest plateau in the world is the Tibetan Plateau. Simple English Wikipedia: Plateau
- 14 Across: AUTONOMOUS — Autonomy means being able to rule without having to obey some other higher authority. Simple English Wikipedia: Autonomy
- 1 Down: HALF — One half is the multiplicative inverse of 2. Wikipedia: One half
- 6 Down: LIMITS
- 7 Down: SMALL
- 9 Down: THRONE — A throne is the official chair or seat upon which a monarch (royal ruler) is seated on state or ceremonial occasions. Simple English Wikipedia: Throne
- 10 Down: SPEAKING — Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Wikipedia: Speech
- 11 Down: BRUSSELS — Brussels is the capital city of Belgium and the European Union. Simple English Wikipedia: Brussels
- 13 Down: UNESCO — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. Wikipedia: UNESCO
Definitions adapted from Simple English Wikipedia and Wikipedia articles (week 2026-W41), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Read about Belgium
Belgium (officially the Kingdom of Belgium;,, ) is a country in Western Europe. Its capital, Brussels, is the home of many organizations, including the European Union and NATO. Belgium is bordered by the Netherlands in the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast and France to the south.
Belgium has an area of 30689 km2. Around 11.6 million people live in Belgium. It is a founding member of the European Union and is home to its headquarters.
Regions
There are three regions in Belgium. The regions are mainly based on language and culture. Flanders and Wallonia are both split up into five provinces each.
Flanders is the name of the northern half of Belgium, just south of the Netherlands. Most of the people in this region, called the Flemish people, speak Dutch.
Wallonia is the name of the southern half of Belgium, just north of France. Here, most of the people, the Walloons, speak French. There is a small part of Wallonia next to the border with Germany where the people speak German.
The Brussels-Capital Region, where the capital of Brussels is found, is in the middle of the country, but surrounded by Flanders on all sides. It used to be Dutch-speaking, but today French is spoken more often, but with some Dutch still present.
The population is about 60% Dutch-speaking, 39% French-speaking, and 1% German-speaking (the so-called Deutschbelgier). To look after all these groups, Belgium has a complex system of government with highly autonomous regions.
History
The name 'Belgium' comes from Gallia Belgica. This was a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul. Before Roman invasion in 100 BC, the Belgae, a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples, lived there. The Germanic Frankish tribes during the 5th century brought the area under the rule of the Merovingian kings. A slow shift of power during the 8th century led the kingdom of the Franks to change into the Carolingian Empire. The Treaty of Verdun in 843 divided the region into Middle and West Francia. They were vassals either of the King of France or of the Holy Roman Emperor.
Many of these fiefdoms were united in the Burgundian Netherlands of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) divided the Low Countries into the northern United Provinces and the Southern Netherlands. Southern Netherlands were ruled by the Spanish and the Austrian Habsburgs. This made up most of modern Belgium.
After the campaigns of 1794 in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Low Countries were added into the French First Republic. This ended Austrian rule in the area. Adding back the Low Countries formed the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. This happened at the end of the First French Empire in 1815.
The Belgian Revolution was in 1830. Leopold became king on July 21 1831. This is now celebrated as Belgium's National Day.
Geography
Belgium is next to France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Its total area is 34,143 square kilometers (including sea area). The land area alone is 30,689 km², of which 195 km² or 0.64% are inland and coastal waters. Belgium has three main geographical regions. The coastal plain is in the north-west. The central plateau are part of the Anglo-Belgian Basin. The Ardennes uplands are in the south-east. The Paris Basin reaches a small fourth area at Belgium's southernmost tip, Belgian Lorraine.
The coastal plain is mostly sand dunes and polders. Further inland is a smooth, slowly rising landscape. There are fertile valleys. The hills have many forests. The plateaus of the Ardennes are more rough and rocky. They have caves and small, narrow valleys. Signal de Botrange is the country's highest point at 694 metres (2,277 ft).
Belgium is divided into three regions: Flemish Region (Flanders), Walloon Region (Wallonia), and Brussels-Capital Region (Brussels Region or Brussels - also the name of the city):
¹ The city of Brussels does not lie in Flanders Region and therefore cannot be the largest city of this region.
² German name: Wallonie(n): the very eastern part of the Walloon Region is officially German-speaking, the so-called German-speaking Community of Belgium.
Other websites
TopoMapViewer, National Geographic Institute (official map of Belgium)
Text adapted from the Simple English Wikipedia article “Belgium” (revision 10870191, 2026-05-26), authors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.