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Flanders is the country of the Flemings; since several decades ago, it 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
Americas
- Flanders, Louisiana, USA
- Flanders, Michigan, USA
- Flanders, New Jersey, USA
- Flanders, New York, USA
- Flanders, a village in the town of East Lyme, Connecticut, USA
- Flanders, a village in Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
- Indian Flanders (Flandes Indiano), an old name for Chile given during the Arauco War
Europe
- Flanders, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
- County of Flanders, a 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
- East Flanders, a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of modern-day Belgium
- Flanders Fields, the battlefields of World War I in northern France and north-western Belgium
- Flemish Community, one of the three Communities of Belgium, called Flanders
- Flemish Region, one of the three Regions of Belgium, called Flanders
- French Flanders, the northern département of Nord and part of the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- West Flanders, the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, also named Flanders, in modern-day Belgium
- Zeelandic Flanders in The Netherlands
People
- Raúl Hernández Barrón, Mexican suspected drug lord, nicknamed "Flanders 1"
Arts, entertainment, and media
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
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Flanders (band), a.k.a. Deflect, an Italian electronic/dance group
- Flanders (film), by French filmmaker Bruno Dumont
- Flandre Scarlet, a vampire from the Touhou Project game series
- Ned Flanders, a character from The Simpsons franchise
Other uses
- Flanders Automobile Company, a US-American automobile manufacturer that operated in Detroit from 1910 to 1913
- Flanders (horse), an American racehorse
- Flanders, a common fig cultivar
- MS Flanders, a ferry in service under this name in 2002