Flanders (disambiguation)

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:

Places

Western Europe

County of Flanders, an historical county of the Low Countries, which included part of the north of modern-day France and the extreme south-west of the modern Netherlands
Two provinces of modern-day Belgium:
- East Flanders, a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium
- West Flanders, the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, also named Flanders, in Belgium
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
Zeelandic Flanders in The Netherlands
Flanders Fields, the battlefields of World War I in northern France and north-western Belgium

Chile

Indian Flanders (Flandes Indiano), an old name for Chile given during the Arauco War

United Kingdom

Flanders, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

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

Automobiles

Flanders (automobile company), a US-American automobile manufacturer that operated in Detroit from 1910 to 1913

People

Literature

"In Flanders Fields", a 1915 World War I poem by Lt-Col John McCrae
In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign, a book by historian Leon Wolff
Moll Flanders, a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe

Entertainment

Flanders (film), by French filmmaker Bruno Dumont
Flanders (band), a.k.a. Deflect, Italian electronic/dance group
Flandre Scarlet, vampire from the Touhou Project series of games

Other

Flanders (horse), an American racehorse
a common fig cultivar

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