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
- Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, or 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 States
Automobiles
People
- Benjamin Flanders (1816–1896), Louisiana state governor in 1867
- John Flanders, pseudonym of the Belgian writer Jean Ray (1887–1964)
- Laura Flanders (born 1961), 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 (born 1968), journalist and daughter of Michael Flanders
- Walter Flanders (1871–1923), automobile pioneer
- John Buchanan (cricketer) (born 1953), former coach of the Australia cricket team, has the nickname Ned Flanders, due to a supposed resemblance to character on The Simpsons
Literature
Entertainment
Popular culture
- Ned Flanders and his family, in the television series The Simpsons