Flanders is the country of the Flemings; for several decades, it has also been a community and region in Belgium. Geographically and historically, it has also covered parts of France and the Netherlands.

Flanders may also refer to:

Places

Americas

  • Indian Flanders (Flandes Indiano), an old name for Chile given during the Arauco War

United States

  • Flanders, Louisiana
  • Flanders, Michigan
  • Flanders, New Jersey
  • Flanders, New York
  • Flanders, a village in the town of East Lyme, Connecticut
  • Flanders, a village in Litchfield County, Connecticut

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, in the northern French department of Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France
  • West Flanders, the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, also named Flanders, in modern-day Belgium
  • Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands

People

  • Flanders (surname), for a list of people with the name
  • 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, and the eponymous protagonist, 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
  • , a ferry in service under this name in 2002

See also

  • Flemish (disambiguation)