West Flanders
West Flanders is one of the five provinces of Flanders in Belgium and the country's westernmost. It encompasses Belgium's entire coastline and thus is a favourite travel destination for Belgians in the summer months.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Bruges and Kortrijk.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Ostend and Roeselare.
Nieuwpoort
Nieuwpoort is a beach resort and medieval port on the Belgian sea coast in West Flanders.
West Flanders
- Type: province of Belgium with 1,230,000 residents
- Description: province in Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “BE-VWV”, “Flandre de l’Ouest”, “Flandre Occidentale”, “province de Flandre-Occidentale”, “Province di Wess-Flande”, “Province of West Flanders”, “provincia de Flandes Occidental”, “Provinsje West-Vloandern”, “Qərbi Flandiriya”, “Tây Flanders”, “West Flanders Province”, “WV”, “மேற்கு பிளான்டெர்ஸ்”, and “จังหวัดแว็สต์-ฟลานเดอเริน”
- Neighbors: East Flanders, Hainaut, and Zeeland
- Location: Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude of center
51° north
Longitude of center
3° east
Population
1,230,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Abbreviation
“WVL”
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“West Flanders” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wes-Vlaandere”
- Albanian: “Flandria Perëndimore”
- Arabic: “فلاندرز الغربية”
- Aragonese: “Flandres Occidental”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Ֆլանդրիա”
- Asturian: “Flandes Occidental”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Flandriya”
- Balinese: “Flandria Kauh”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Flandria”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя Фландрыя”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя Фляндрыя”
- Bengali: “ওয়েস্ট ফ্লান্ডার্স”
- Breton: “Proviñs Kornôg-Flandrez”
- Bulgarian: “Западна Фландрия”
- Catalan: “Flandes Occidental”
- Cebuano: “Provincie West-Vlaanderen”
- Chinese: “西佛兰德省”
- Corsican: “Fiandri Occidentali”
- Croatian: “Zapadna Flandrija”
- Czech: “Západní Flandry”
- Danish: “Vestflandern”
- Dutch: “Provincie West-Vlaanderen”
- Dutch: “West-Vlaanderen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فلاندر الغربيه”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Flandrio”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Flandria provints”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Flanderi”
- French: “Flandre-Occidentale”
- French: “Province de Flandre Occidentale”
- French: “Province de Flandre-Occidentale”
- Galician: “Flandres Occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი ფლანდრია”
- German: “Provinz Westflandern”
- German: “West-Flandern”
- German: “Westflandern”
- Greek: “Δυτική Φλάνδρα”
- Gujarati: “વેસ્ટ ફ્લેન્ડર્સ”
- Hebrew: “מערב פלנדריה”
- Hindi: “पश्चिम फ़्लांडर्स”
- Hindi: “वेस्ट फ्लैंडर्स”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Flandria”
- Icelandic: “Vestur-Flæmingjaland”
- Indonesian: “Flanders Barat”
- Indonesian: “Flandria Barat”
- Irish: “Flóndras Thiar”
- Italian: “Fiandre Occidentali”
- Italian: “provincia delle Fiandre Occidentali”
- Italian: “Provincia delle Fiandre Occidentali”
- Japanese: “ウェスト＝フランデレン州”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಫ್ಲಾಂಡರ್ಸ್”
- Kashubian: “Zôpadnô Flandriô”
- Kölsch: “Wäßßflaandere”
- Korean: “베스트플란데런주”
- Latin: “Flandria Occidentalis”
- Latvian: “Rietumflandrija”
- Limburgan: “Wes-Vlaandere”
- Limburgan: “Wes-Vlaondere”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Flandrijos provincija”
- Low German: “West-Flannern”
- Low German: “Westfloandern”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Westflandern”
- Macedonian: “Западна Фландрија”
- Malay: “Flanders Barat”
- Maltese: “Fjandri tal-Punent”
- Marathi: “पश्चिम फ्लांडर्स”
- Min Nan Chinese: “West-Vlaanderen Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Prowins Waastflandern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vest-Flandern”
- Norwegian: “Vest-Flandern”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Flandra Occidentala”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Фландри”
- Persian: “استان فلاندری غربی”
- Persian: “فلاندر غربی”
- Picard: “Flande-Occhidintale”
- Polish: “Flandria Zachodnia”
- Polish: “Prowincja Flandria Zachodnia”
- Portuguese: “Flandres Ocidental”
- Romanian: “Flandra de Vest”
- Russian: “Западная Фландрия”
- Saterfriesisch: “Wääst-Flandern”
- Scots: “Wast Flanders”
- Serbian: “Западна Фландрија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadna Flandrija”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර ෆ්ලන්ඩර්ස් පළාත, බෙල්ජියම”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර ෆ්ලන්ඩර්ස්”
- Slovak: “Západné Flámsko”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Flandrija”
- Spanish: “Flandes Occidental”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Flandes Occidental”
- Swedish: “Västflandern”
- Swiss German: “Provinz Westflandern”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு பிலான்டெர்ஸ்”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு பிளாண்டர்சு”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Фландрия”
- Telugu: “వెస్ట్ ఫ్లాండర్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเวสต์ฟลานเดอส์”
- Turkish: “Batı Flandre”
- Ukrainian: “Західна Фландрія”
- Urdu: “مغربی فلانڈرز”
- Vietnamese: “West-Vlaanderen”
- Vlaams: “West-Vloandern”
- Volapük: “Vesüda⸗Flanän”
- Volapük: “West-Vlaanderen”
- Walloon: “Flande coûtchantrece”
- Walloon: “Province di Flande coûtchantrece”
- Waray (Philippines): “West-Vlaanderen”
- Welsh: “Gorllewin Fflandrys”
- Western Frisian: “West-Flaanderen”
- Western Panjabi: “لیندا فلینڈرز”
- Wu Chinese: “西佛兰德省”
- Yue Chinese: “西法蘭德斯”
- Zeeuws: “West-Vlaonderen”
- “West-Vlaanderen”
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