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La Flandre française (ou parfois les Flandres françaises) est la partie de l'ancien comté de Flandre qui fait aujourd'hui partie de la France, et qui consiste traditionnellement en la moitié nord du département du Nord, auquel s'ajoutent quatre communes du Pas-de-Calais (voir Étendue géographique ci-dessous).
La province de Flandre-Occidentale (en néerlandais : West-Vlaanderen) est une province de Belgique située en Région flamande. Elle est la province la plus occidentale de la Belgique et est placée sous la tutelle de la région flamande. Elle est la seule province maritime de Belgique, baignée par la mer du Nord.
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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 ).
Belgian French (French: français de Belgique), also known as Walloon French (French: français Wallon), is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais).
French Flemish (French Flemish: Fransch vlaemsch, Standard Dutch: Frans-Vlaams, French: flamand français) is a West Flemish dialect spoken in the north of contemporary France. Place names attest to Flemish having been spoken since the 8th century in the part of Flanders that was ceded to France at the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees , and which ...
Together, these formed the French province of Flanders which, following the French Revolution, became the new Nord département. Map of the new region Hauts-de-France, with its five départements, colored according to the historical provinces as they existed until 1790.
