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      • The region lies in the modern-day northern French region of Hauts-de-France, and roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Lille, Douai and Dunkirk on the northern border with Belgium.
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    The area of today's Flanders has figured prominently in European history since the Middle Ages. The original County of Flanders stretched around AD 900 from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt estuary and expanded from there. This county also still corresponds roughly with the modern-day Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders ...

    • 13,624 km² (5,260 sq mi)
    • Belgium
    • 862–1795
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  3. Flanders maps. Political map of Flanders, illustrating the major cities, major roads and administrative unit of Flanders. Click on above map to view higher resolution image.

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  4. French Flanders consists, mostly, of flat marshlands in the coal-rich regions just south of the North Sea. It comprises two areas: French Westhoek to the northwest, lying between the river Lys and the North Sea, roughly the same area as the Arrondissement of Dunkirk;

  5. Apr 25, 2017 · A map of Belgium illustrating Flanders in the north and Wallonia in the south. The nation of Belgium is comprised by two major regions with three linguistically and culturally distinct communities therein. The two areas are Flanders, consisting of the Dutch speaking or Flemish community, and Walloon or Wallonia, the home of the French community.

  6. Flanders ( Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch -speaking, northern part of Belgium 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 made visible through its buildings, works of art and festivals.

  7. Flanders ( Dutch: Vlaanderen, French: Anvers, German: Flandern, Limburgish: Vlaondere, West Flemish: Vloandern) or Flemish Region (Dutch: Vlaams Gewest ), is the Dutch -speaking northern part of Belgium. [3] Their version of the Dutch language is usually called Flemish (Dutch: Vlaams ). [4] .

  8. Aug 29, 2022 · Flanders Fields is located in the western part of Belgium, one of Europe’s low countries, and is bordered by the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Luxembourg. For most of the Great War, the Western Front ran from the Swiss-German border north toward the Belgian Coast and Ypres (Ieper) is commonly known as the centre of the Flanders Fields region.

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