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Country
  
Belgium

Region
  
Flemish Region

Postal codes
  
3990

Postal code
  
3990

Province
  
Limburg

Community
  
Flemish Community

Arrondissement
  
Maaseik

Area codes
  
011

Local time
  
Saturday 9:09 PM

Area code
  
011

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Weather
  
11°C, Wind NE at 21 km/h, 34% Humidity

Peer is a municipality located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Peer had a total population of 15,810. The total area is 86.95 km² which gives a population density of 182 inhabitants per km².

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Map of Peer, Belgium

The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Peer, Grote-Brogel, Kleine-Brogel, Wauberg, Erpekom and Wijchmaal.

Peer is the site of a famous annual blues music festival held in July.

History

The village Grote Brogel, part of Peer, claims to be the birthplace of Pieter Bruegel. The Bruegel Foundation was also founded in Peer to research the history of Peer and Pieter Bruegel.

Kleine Brogel, a village that is a part of Peer, includes Kleine Brogel Air Base. Rumours that American nuclear weapons under the NATO nuclear sharing program were stationed at Kleine Brogel have never been officially confirmed, but are now known to be true. A cable from the American Embassy in Brussels from Nov. 2009 - published by Wikileaks - not only confirms their existence, but also informs that the Belgian government rejected a proposal from Germany to propose to the rest of NATO that the nuclear weapons be removed from both countries (as well as those stationed in the Netherlands and Italy).

Climate

Peer has in the summer quite a nice temperature, around 20 degrees Celsius. In the winter it normally snows.

References

Peer, Belgium Wikipedia