Today Flanders extends over the northern part of Belgium, including not only the Dutch-speaking Belgian parts of the medieval Duchy of Brabant, which was united with Flanders since the Middle Ages, but also Belgian Limburg, which corresponds closely to the medieval County of Loon, and was never under Burgundian control.

Flanders, region that constitutes the northern half of Belgium. Along with the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region, the self-governing Flemish Region was created during the federalization of Belgium, largely along ethnolinguistic lines, in the 1980s and ’90s.

Dec 6, 2019 · Flanders is located entirely within the Blue Banana. The region’s three largest cities are Bruges, Ghent, and Antwerp (the largest city with a population of about 500,000 people).

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.

Flanders 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.

Feb 3, 2025 · Flanders, medieval principality in the southwest of the Low Countries, now included in the French département of Nord (q.v.), the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders (qq.v.), and the Dutch province of Zeeland (q.v.).

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.

Where is Flanders located? Map showing the location of Flanders within Belgium and Western Europe.

Apr 25, 2017 · What Are Flanders And Wallonia? 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.

Flanders (Vlaanderen in Dutch) is the predominantly Dutch-speaking northern region of Belgium. It has a land area of 13,522 km2 (5,221 sq mi), corresponding to 44% of the territory of Belgium, and 6 million inhabitants, or nearly two thirds the Belgian population.