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Zeelandic Flanders is the north-eastern part of the large historical region of Flanders which today lies mostly in Belgium. It shares a land border with the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders. It is a latitudinally oriented strip of land along the Western Scheldt, a North Sea estuary, and has no land access to the rest of the Netherlands.
The historically Flemish region which became part of the Dutch Republic, now part of the Dutch province of Zeeland, sometimes called Zeelandic Flanders. However, the term came to be used for a bigger territory, and this is critical to the evolution of modern terminology.
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It was influential in all neighbouring regions including England, and at its greatest extent it's political hegemony stretched north into Zeelandic Flanders in what is now the Netherlands, and deep into French-speaking northern France.
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Zeeland consists of several islands and peninsulas. These are, from north to south, Schouwen-Duiveland, Tholen, Noord-Beveland, Walcheren and Zuid-Beveland. It also includes a strip of land bordering the Belgian region of Flanders, the Zeelandic Flanders
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. Surrounded by the Westerschelde estuary and the North Sea, the vast beaches of Zeeland-Flanders are a beloved destination for bathers and nature lovers. The region also has two major nature reserves. Het Zwin, in the west, is a well-known archaeological site where 40-million-year-old sharks’ teeth have been found.
