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El Flandes francés ( Flandre française en francés, Frans-Vlaanderen en neerlandés) es una región no administrativa que ocupa la mitad septentrional del departamento de Norte (Nord), en Francia (Blootland, Houtland, Métropole de Lille, Pévèle-Carembault, Douaisis). 1.
Geography. French Flanders consists, mostly, of flat marshlands in the coal-rich regions just south of the North Sea. It comprises two areas: Walloon Flanders (French: La Flandre wallonne; Dutch: Waals Vlaanderen ), to the southeast, south of the Lys and now the Arrondissements of Lille and Douai.
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In French Flanders, French is the only official language and now the native language of the majority of the population, but there is still a minority of Dutch-speakers living there. French is also the primary language in the officially bilingual Brussels Capital Region (see Francization of Brussels ).
The original medieval county of Flanders spread from the area of Bruges, and later had its capital in nearby Ghent. Its core territories came to include French Flanders, now in France, the Belgian provinces of West and East Flanders, and part of the modern province of Hainaut.
The historic and fascinating area of French Flanders. The Good Life France. Nord-Pas de Calais. No wonder the ancient Dukedom of Flanders and the adjoining territories of Artois and Picardy are known to historians as ‘The Cockpit of Europe’. Straddling the borders between present day France and Belgium it’s a region that shaped two world ...
Jan 14, 2024 · French Flanders. English: French Flanders is a part of the historical Dutch -speaking region in present-day France. The region today lies in the modern-day region of Nord-Pas de Calais, the department of Nord, and roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Lille, Douai and Dunkirk on the Belgian border.
Jun 24, 2020 · Flanders ( Dutch: Vlaanderen) [1] is the Dutch -speaking northern part of Belgium. It is wedged between the North Sea and the Netherlands in the north and Wallonia and France in the south. This region has an immense historical and cultural wealth which is made visible through its buildings, its works of art and its festivals. Regions.
