Flanders

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Flanders is the country of the Flemings and, since several decades ago is also a community and a region in Belgium. Geographically and historically, Flanders also covers parts of France and The Netherlands but may also refer to:

In Western Europe

• County of Flanders, an historical county of the Low Countries, which included part of the north-east of modern-day France
• Two provinces of modern-day Belgium:
  • East Flanders
  • West Flanders
• Flemish Community, one of the three Communities of Belgium
• Flemish Region, one of the three Regions of Belgium
• French Flanders, the northern département of Nord and part of the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
• Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, or Zeelandic Flanders in The Netherlands
• Flanders Fields, the battlefields of World War I in northern France and north-western Belgium

In the United States

• Flanders, Louisiana
• Flanders, Michigan
• Flanders, New Jersey
• Flanders, New York
• A village in the town of East Lyme, Connecticut
• A village in Litchfield County, Connecticut

People

• Benjamin Flanders, Louisiana state governor in 1867
• John Flanders, pseudonym of the Belgian writer Jean Ray (1887–1964)
• Laura Flanders, journalist and daughter of Michael Flanders
• Michael Flanders (1922–1975), member of the duo Flanders and Swann
• Ralph Edward Flanders (1880–1970), U.S. senator from Vermont from 1946 to 1959
• Stephanie Flanders (1968–), journalist and daughter of Michael Flanders
• Walter Flanders (1871–1923), automobile pioneer
• Anton Flanders (1985-), musician
• John Buchanan (cricketer), former coach of the Australia cricket team, has the nickname Ned Flanders, due to a supposed resemblance to character on The Simpsons

Literature

• "In Flanders Fields", a World War I poem by Lt-Col John McCrae
• In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign, a book by historian Leon Wolff
• Moll Flanders, novel by Daniel Defoe

Entertainment

• Flanders (film), by French filmmaker Bruno Dumont
• Flanders (group), a.k.a. Deflect, Italian electronic/dance group

Popular culture

• Ned Flanders and the Flanders family, in the television series The Simpsons

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