Indians in Belgium

Indians in Belgium
Regions with significant populations
Antwerp · Ghent · Brussels · Liege
Languages
English and other languages of India
Religion
Hinduism · Jainism · Sikhism
Related ethnic groups
Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin

Indians are employed mainly in the software and diamond industries as well as other local industries in major cities. Mainly comprising the Gujaratis from Palanpur district in Gujarat and the Marwaris from Rajasthan, initially arrived in Antwerp to work in the diamond industry.

Software companies like HCL, TCS and Infosys also have a presence in Belgium and employ many people of Indian origin.

About 80% of the Indians living in Belgium are Hindus. These people mainly reside in the areas of Hasselt, Brussels, Gent and Antwerp.

References

Indian Diaspora

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Indian diaspora in Belgium.

Ethnic and national groups in Belgium

Flemish Walloons German-speaking Belgians

Africans Croats Filipinos Georgia Greeks Indians Maltese Russians Turkish Vietnamese

Bold denotes ethnic groups that (partly) originate from within contemporary and historic parts of the Belgium

Non-resident Indians and people of Indian origin

Africa

South-East	Kenya Madagascar Mauritius Bihari Tamil Mozambique Réunion¹ (Malbars) Seychelles Tamil Tanzania Uganda Zambia

Elsewhere	Botswana Egypt Ghana South Africa (Tamil) Zimbabwe

Americas

Caribbean

Commonwealth	Barbados Belize Grenada Guyana Jamaica Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago (Dougla)

Elsewhere	Dominican Republic Guadeloupe² Haiti (Marabou) Martinique² Suriname

Latin America

Elsewhere

Canada
United States
- by city
- Bengali
- Indo-Caribbean
- Punjabi
- Punjabi Mexican
- Tamil

Asia

South	Afghanistan Bangladesh Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka (Tamil)

South-East	Brunei Burma Cambodia Indonesia Mardijker Tamil Malaysia Chitty Jawi Peranakan Tamil Penangite Indian Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

East	China (Hong Kong) Japan Korea Taiwan

West	Bahrain Iran Israel Kuwait Lebanon Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Turkey United Arab Emirates

Europe

Eastern	Poland Russia

Northern	Finland Sweden

Southern	Cyprus Italy Tamil Portugal Spain

Western	Belgium France Tamil Germany Tamil Luxembourg Netherlands United Kingdom London Indo-Caribbean Tamil

Oceania

See also

Related diasporas	Bengali Hindu Indo-Fijian Kashmiri Malayalis in the Gulf Oriya Punjabi (Sikhs) Romani Sindhi Tamil

Other related articles	Anglo-Indian Chindian Desi Little India Non-Resident Indian Award Non-Resident Indian Day

¹ An overseas departments of France in the southwest Indian Ocean
²Overseas departments of France in the Americas
³A sui generis collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean

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