Flanders

Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is a large historical region overlapping parts of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.

Today, Flanders often designates the merged Flemish Region and Flemish Community, with a parliament and government for the inhabitants of the northern half of Belgium. Flanders may also refer to the Flemish Region, which does not include Brussels-Capital. In either sense it has the world's highest living standard, together with Norway. West Flanders and East Flanders are two of the five provinces of the Flemish Region, both located in its western part. French Flanders may designate the departement called Nord ("North") or the larger Nord-Pas de Calais region in which Nord is located. Zeelandic Flanders, in Dutch Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, refers to a part of the Netherlands located in Zeeland.