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About Flanders

Flanders is the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, with Brussels as its capital. It has 6.5 million inhabitants. Flanders is bordered by Wallonia (the southern, French-speaking part of Belgium) to the south, the Netherlands to the north and east and the North Sea to the west.

Flanders

Flanders has its own parliament and government, headed by a Minister-President. It is responsible for culture, education, welfare, public works and several other policy domains.

Important Flemish cities, besides Brussels, are Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Leuven and Hasselt.