Flanders (disambiguation)

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Flanders is a region and community in Belgium 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
• East Flanders and West Flanders are provinces of modern-day Belgium's Flemish Region
• 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 are the battlefields of World War I in Northern France and North-Western Belgium

In North America

• Flanders, New Jersey, U.S.
• Flanders, New York, U.S.
• A village in the town of East Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.
• A village in Litchfield County, Connecticut, U.S.

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
• Flanders (group), a.k.a. Deflect, Italian electronic/dance group

Literature

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

Cinema

• Flanders is a film by French filmmaker Bruno Dumont

Popular Culture

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