Provinces of Belgium
The country of Belgium is divided into three regions. Two of these regions, the Flemish Region or Flanders, and Walloon Region, or Wallonia, are each subdivided into five provinces. The third region, the Brussels-Capital Region, is not divided into provinces, as it was originally only a small part of a province itself.
List of National Roads in Belgium
The first network consists of national roads, each starting from the capital Brussels and forming a clockwise star.
The second network groups the national roads that are linked to major cities and towns of Belgium, excluding Brussels.
The third network is composed of provincial national roads. The first digit corresponds to a province—from 1 to 9—based upon the old provinces and in alphabetical order in French, thus: Province of Antwerp; Province of Brabant; Province of West Flanders; Province of East Flanders; Province of Hainaut; Province of Liège; Province of Limburg; Province of Luxemburg; and Province of Namur.
Due to linguistic differences, the national road N58 took more than twenty years to build. It does not actually run from Dottignies to Armentières as anticipated because the road is split into two sections: the first stretches from Armentières in France up to Menen where it joins onto the A19 motorway; the other part starts in the village of Dronkaard to the southeast of Menen, and ends in the village of Dottignies.