It received 13 million visitors, covered 88 hectares (220 acres) and lost 100,000 Belgian francs.

There were 26 participating countries: Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France,[3] Germany (whose Attaché des Reichskommissars was Heinrich Albert),[4] Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Persia, Peru, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States and Uruguay.

The Dutch and German pavilions displayed the decorative arts and architecture of their home country.

[3] Painters who participated included the Belgian Aloïs Boudry who won a silver medal, and the French Adrien Karbowsky.

The Belgian engineer Jean-Baptiste Flamme [fr] also exhibited his new Type 10 pacific locomotive.