Flanders

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The Flemish Region : The Flemish Community :

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Official languageDutch

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CapitalBrussels

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Minister-President Yves Leterme

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Area - Total 13,522 km2

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Population - In Flemish region  - in Brussels region6,016,024 (2004) /- 200,000 442/km2

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Regional anthemDe Vlaamse Leeuw

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Flanders (Flemish, Fleming) (Dutch: Vlaanderen (Vlaams, Vlaming), French: Flandre(s), (flamand, flamand), German: Flandern, (fl?misch, Flame) has two main designations:

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• a constituent community of the federal Belgian state through its social and political organisations, and through the institutions of the Flemish Community (with its own Flemish government and Flemish parliament) that also absorbed all the competencies of the Flemish Region;
• a historical region, the County of Flanders, now in Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

The precise geographical area denominated by Flanders has changed a great deal over the centuries.

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In the past, the term Flanders was applied to an area in western Europe, the County of Flanders, spread over:

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• a part of what is now the Nord d?partement (Nord-Pas de Calais), in northeastern France, sometimes called French Flanders
• the area that is now approximately the Flemish provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders
• a part of what is now Zeeland in southwestern Netherlands, called Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.

The significance of the County and its counts eroded through time, but the designation remained.

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Flanders related Images and Photos (experimental)

In Flanders Fields	Red Flanders Poppy	In Flanders's Fields	Robert II Le Hierosolymitain Count of Flanders (D.1111) 1843
Belfort and River Dijver Bruges Flanders Belgium	Baguettes in the Window of the Paul Bread Shop Lille Flanders Nord France	Banquet Hosted by the Officers of the French Gardes Du Corps for Officers of the Flanders Regiment