East Flanders
East Flanders is one of the five provinces of Flanders. Its capital is Ghent. Four major rivers - Scheldt, Leie, Dender and Durme - run through the province area and lend their name, fame and strength to the region.
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Beveren
Waasmunster
East Flanders
- Type: province of Belgium with 1,570,000 residents
- Description: province in Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “BE-VOV”, “Đông Flandre”, “East Flanders Province”, “East Flemish Province”, “Fiandre orientali”, “OV”, “province de Flandre-Orientale”, “Province o East Flanders”, “Province of East Flanders”, “provincia de Flandes Oriental”, “Provinsje Ôost-Vloandern”, “Vzhodna Flandrija”, “கிழக்கு பிளான்டெர்ஸ்”, “බෙල්ජියම නැගෙනහිර ෆ්ලන්ඩර්ස් පළාත”, “จังหวัดโอสต์-ฟลานเดอเริน”, “东佛兰德”, and “东佛兰德斯省”
- Neighbors: Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, Hainaut, West Flanders, and Zeeland
- Location: Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude of center
51° north
Longitude of center
3.75° or 3° 45′ east
Population
1,570,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Abbreviation
“OVL”
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“East Flanders” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oos-Vlaandere”
- Albanian: “Flandra Lindore”
- Albanian: “Flandria Lindore”
- Arabic: “فلاندر الشرقية”
- Aragonese: “Flandres Oriental”
- Armenian: “Արևելյան Ֆլանդրիա”
- Asturian: “Flandes Oriental”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərqi Flandriya”
- Balinese: “Flandria Kangin”
- Basque: “Ekialdeko Flandria”
- Bavarian: “Ostflandern”
- Bavarian: “Provinz Ostflandern”
- Belarusian: “Усходняя Фландрыя”
- Belarusian: “Усходняя Фляндрыя”
- Bengali: “ইস্ট ফ্লান্ডার্স”
- Breton: “Reter-Flandrez”
- Bulgarian: “Източна Фландрия”
- Catalan: “Flandes Oriental”
- Cebuano: “Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen”
- Chinese: “东佛兰德省”
- Chinese: “東法蘭德斯省”
- Croatian: “Istočna Flandrija”
- Czech: “Východní Flandry”
- Danish: “Østflandern”
- Dutch: “Oost-Vlaanderen”
- Dutch: “Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فلاندر الشرقيه”
- Esperanto: “Orienta Flandrio”
- Estonian: “Ida-Flandria provints”
- Estonian: “Ida-Flandria”
- Finnish: “Itä-Flanderi”
- French: “Flandre Orientale”
- French: “Flandre-Orientale”
- French: “Province de Flandre Orientale”
- French: “Province de Flandre-Orientale”
- Galician: “Flandres Oriental”
- Galician: “Provincia de Flandres oriental”
- Georgian: “აღმოსავლეთი ფლანდრია”
- German: “Ost-Flandern”
- German: “Ostflandern”
- German: “Provinz Ostflandern”
- Greek: “Ανατολική Φλάνδρα”
- Gujarati: “ઇસ્ટ ફ્લેન્ડર્સ”
- Hebrew: “פלנדריה המזרחית”
- Hindi: “पूर्वी फ़्लांडर्स”
- Hungarian: “Kelet-Flandria”
- Icelandic: “Austur-Flæmingjaland”
- Indonesian: “Flanders Timur”
- Indonesian: “Flandria Timur”
- Irish: “Flóndras Thoir”
- Italian: “Fiandre Orientali”
- Italian: “provincia delle Fiandre Orientali”
- Italian: “Provincia delle Fiandre Orientali”
- Japanese: “オースト＝フランデレン州”
- Kannada: “ಈಸ್ಟ್ ಫ್ಲಾಂಡರ್ಸ್”
- Kölsch: “Oßßflaandere”
- Korean: “오스트플란데런주”
- Latin: “Flandria Orientalis”
- Latvian: “Austrumflandrija”
- Limburgan: “Oos-Vlaandere”
- Limburgan: “Oos-Vlaondere”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų Flandrijos provincija”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų Flandrijos”
- Low German: “Oostfloandern”
- Luxembourgish: “Ostflandern”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Ostflandern”
- Macedonian: “Источна Фландрија”
- Malay: “Flanders Timur”
- Maltese: “Fjandri tal-Lvant”
- Marathi: “पूर्व फ्लांडर्स”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oost-Vlaanderen Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Uastflandern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-Flandern”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-Flandern”
- Norwegian: “Øst-Flandern”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Flandra Orientala”
- Ossetian: “Скæсæн Фландри”
- Persian: “استان فلاندری شرقی”
- Persian: “فلاندر شرقی”
- Picard: “Flande-Oryintale”
- Polish: “Flandria Wschodnia”
- Polish: “Prowincja Flandria Wschodnia”
- Portuguese: “Flandres Oriental”
- Romanian: “Flandra de Est”
- Russian: “Восточная Фландрия”
- Scots: “East Flanders”
- Serbian: “Источна Фландрија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Istočna Flandrija”
- Sinhala: “නැගෙනහිර ෆ්ලන්ඩර්ස් පළාත, බෙල්ජියම”
- Sinhala: “නැගෙනහිර ෆ්ලන්ඩර්ස්”
- Slovak: “Východné Flámsko”
- Slovenian: “provinca Vzhodna Flandrija”
- Spanish: “Flandes Oriental”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Flandes Oriental”
- Swedish: “Östflandern”
- Swiss German: “Provinz Ostflandern”
- Tamil: “கிழக்கு பிலான்டெர்ஸ்”
- Tamil: “கிழக்கு பிளாண்டர்சு”
- Telugu: “ఈస్ట్ ఫ్లాండర్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอีสต์ฟลานเดอส์”
- Turkish: “Doğu Flandre”
- Ukrainian: “Східна Фландрія”
- Urdu: “مشرقی فلانڈرز”
- Vietnamese: “Oost-Vlaanderen”
- Vlaams: “Ôost-Vloandern”
- Volapük: “Lofüda⸗Flanän”
- Volapük: “Oost-Vlaanderen”
- Walloon: “Flande levantrece”
- Walloon: “Province di Flande levantrece”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oost-Vlaanderen”
- Welsh: “Dwyrain Fflandrys”
- Western Frisian: “East-Flaanderen”
- Western Panjabi: “چڑھدا فلینڈرز”
- Wu Chinese: “东佛兰德省”
- Yue Chinese: “東法蘭德斯”
- Zeeuws: “Oôst-Vlaonderen”
- “Oost-Vlaanderen”
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