Why do the municipalities in the Vlaamse Rand around Brussels continue to be Flemish, even when they are inhabited by a majority of foreign speakers? The municipalities in the Rand around Brussels belong to the Dutch language area.

The Flemish Region is distinct from the Flemish Community: the latter encompasses both the inhabitants of the Flemish Region and the Dutch-speaking minority living in the Brussels-Capital Region. It borders the Netherlands and France.

In Flanders, the powers of the Community and the Region are exercised by a single Parliament and a single Government: the Flemish Parliament and the Flemish Government. For information about the Flemish Region, you can consult the text about the Flemish Community.

So we refer to (from north to south) the Flemish Region, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region. The Regions have legislative and executive organs: these are known as the Regional Parliament and the Regional Government.

Flanders, region that constitutes the northern half of Belgium. Along with the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region, the self-governing Flemish Region was created during the federalization of Belgium, largely along ethnolinguistic lines, in the 1980s and ’90s.

The new Belgium was divided by two language borders: the age-old territorial language border running from east to west separating Flanders from Wallonia, and the social language border. It ran right through the population of Flanders (including Brussels), separating the elite [2] from both the middle classes and the group consisting of ...

Flemish strijdvlag as adopted by large parts of the Flemish Movement. The Flemish Movement is an umbrella term which has many political groups in the Belgian region of Flanders and, less commonly, in French Flanders.They are made up of groups who wish to promote Flemish culture and the Dutch language as well as those wanting a …

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'de Rand' operates on behalf of the 19 Flemish Rand municipalities, with special emphasis on the six municipalities providing language facilities. ‘de Rand’ is financially assisted by the Flemish Community and the Flemish Brabant province.