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Location of Flanders in Europe

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The Flemish Region in Belgium

Aalst (East Flanders), Belfry

Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen, French: Flandre, German: Flandern) has historically
been a region overlapping parts of modern Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.
Today, Flanders designates either the Flemish Community, which includes Dutchspeaking residents of the Brussels-Capital Region, or the Flemish Region, which does
not. The parliament and government govern both the Community and the Region,
even though they are not co-extensive.
West Flanders and East Flanders are two of the five provinces of the Flemish Region,
both located in its western part. French Flanders may designate the département
called Nord ("North") or the larger Nord-Pas de Calais region in which Nord is located.
Zeelandic Flanders, in Dutch Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, refers to a part of the Netherlands
located in Zeeland.

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