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'Sint-Joost-ten-Node' (Dutch) or 'Saint-Josse-ten-Noode' (French, usually shortened to ''Saint-Josse'') is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.
On 1 January 2006 the municipality had a total population of 23,557. The total area is 1.14 km² which gives a population density of 20,622 inhabitants per km². With only 1.14 km², Saint-Josse-ten-Noode is the municipality with the smallest territory in Belgium.

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Foreign (stock) population

Mayors of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Foreign (stock) population

Citizenship	1979	1995
Belgium	12,222 (54.5%)	9,231 (42.1%)
Turkey	2,304 (10.3%)	3,904 (18.1%)
Morocco	2,664 (11.9%)	3,761 (17.5%)
Italy	1,661 (7.4%)	785 (3.6%)
Spain	840 (3.7%)	443 (2.1%)
Portugal	...	209 (1%)
Congo (RDC)	198 (0.9%)
Total population	22,409	21,522

source : Institut National de Statistiques
While foreigners were a majority in 1995, nowadays most of the population has Belgian citizenship, which has resulted in a sharp increase of municipal councillors with a foreign background, benefitting from the open proportional electoral system: from 0 in 1988 to 2 (from Morocco) in 1994 and a near majority of 13 out of 27 now (May 2006) in the council (including 3 aldermen).

Mayors of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

From: "Histoire de Saint Josse Ten Noode et de Schaerbeek - VAN BEMMEL - 1869" and other sources available at the local public library.

★ O'KELLY André-Etienne-Joseph 1800 1808

★ DE GLIMES (GLIM) Jacques-Joseph 1808

★ AERTS Théodore-Nicolas-Joseph 1813

★ DE GLIMES (GLIM) Jacques-Joseph 1815

★ WAUVERMANS Jean-François 1813 1823

★ VERBIST Urbain Henri 1823 1842

★ WILLEMS Léonard Constant 29/12/1842 1846

★ GILLON Jacques Joseph Damas 18/04/1846 1867

★ SAINCTELETTE Louis Guillaume Felix 13/02/1867

★ JOTTRAND Fritz 1870 1884

★ STEURS Armand 1885 1899

★ FRICK Henri 1900 1926

★ PETRE Georges 1926 1942 alderman, then mayor from 1926 until his destitution and assassination by the Rexists in 1942)

★ DERY Joseph 1944 1947

★ SAINT-REMI André 1947 1953

★ CUDELL Guy 1953 1999

★ DEMANNEZ Jean 1999 (councillor in 1976, alderman in 1977, mayor since 1999, reelected in 2000)