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.Photo: Ellywa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Ypres
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ypres is a friendly town of 35,000 inhabitants in Flanders endowed with wonderful architecture and a troubled past.
Destinations
Roeselare
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Roeselare is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
Knokke-Heist
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Knokke-Heist is a beach resort and town of 33,000 inhabitants on the Belgian sea coast in the northern corner of West Flanders.
Nieuwpoort
Nieuwpoort is a beach resort and medieval port on the Belgian sea coast in West Flanders.
Damme
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Damme is a postcard-perfect village in the northern corner of West Flanders, about 5 km northeast of Sasplein in Bruges, on the cross-country Damme Canal.
Koksijde
Koksijde is a sea resort in West Flanders. It consists of Koksijde section, the seaside resort of Oostduinkerke and the rural village of Wulpen.
Tielt
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tielt is a small town in the eastern part of the Belgian province of West Flanders.
Poperinge
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Poperinge is a charming town in the southwest corner of the province of West Flanders, close to the French border.
West Flanders
- Type: province of Belgium with 1,200,000 residents
- Description: province in Flanders, Belgium
- Neighbors: East Flanders, Hainaut and Zeeland
- Location: Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
51° northLongitude of center
3° eastPopulation
1,200,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Abbreviation
WVLGeoNames ID
2783770Wikidata ID
Q1113West Flanders Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Wes-Vlaandere
- Albanian: Flandria Perëndimore
- Arabic: West-Vlaanderen
- Arabic: فلاندرز الغربية
- Aragonese: Flandres Occidental
- Armenian: Արևմտյան Ֆլանդրիա
- Asturian: Provincia de Flandes Occidental
- Azerbaijani: Qərbi Flandiriya
- 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: West-Vlaanderen Séng
- Chinese: 西佛兰德省
- Chinese: 西法蘭德斯
- Corsican: Fiandri Occidentali
- Croatian: Zapadna Flandrija
- Czech: Západní Flandry
- Danish: Vestflandern
- Dutch: Provincie West-Vlaanderen
- Dutch: WV
- Dutch: West-Vlaanderen
- Egyptian Arabic: فلاندر الغربيه
- English: BE-VWV
- English: Province of West Flanders
- English: Provinsje West-Vloandern
- English: West-Vlaanderen
- English: West-Vloandern
- English: West Flanders Province
- Esperanto: Okcidenta Flandrio
- Estonian: Lääne-Flandria provints
- Finnish: Länsi-Flanderi
- French: Flandre-Occidentale
- French: Flandre de l'Ouest
- French: Province de 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: वेस्ट फ्लैंडर्स
- Hungarian: Nyugat-Flandria
- Icelandic: Vestur-Flæmingjaland
- Indonesian: Flanders Barat
- Irish: Flóndras Thiar
- Irish: West-Vlaanderen
- Italian: Fiandre Occidentali
- Italian: Fiandre occidentali
- Japanese: ウェスト＝フランデレン州
- Kannada: ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಫ್ಲಾಂಡರ್ಸ್
- Kashubian: Zôpadnô Flandriô
- Korean: 베스트플란데런주
- Kölsch: Wäßßflaandere
- Latin: Flandria Occidentalis
- Latvian: Rietumflandrija
- Limburgan: Wes-Vlaandere
- 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: Vest-Flandern
- Norwegian Bokmål: 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: Wäßßflaandere
- Serbo-Croatian: Zapadna Flandrija
- Sinhala: බටහිර ෆ්ලන්ඩර්ස්
- Slovak: Západné Flámsko
- Slovenian: Zahodna Flandrija
- Spanish: Flandes Occidental
- Spanish: Provincia de Flandes Occidental
- Swedish: Västflandern
- Tamil: மேற்கு பிலான்டெர்ஸ்
- Tamil: மேற்கு பிளாண்டர்சு
- Tamil: மேற்கு பிளான்டெர்ஸ்
- Tatar: Көнбатыш Фландрия
- Telugu: వెస్ట్ ఫ్లాండర్స్
- Thai: จังหวัดเวสต์ฟลานเดอส์
- Thai: จังหวัดแว็สต์-ฟลานเดอเริน
- Tosk Albanian: Provinz Westflandern
- Turkish: Batı Flandre
- Ukrainian: Західна Фландрія
- Urdu: مغربی فلانڈرز
- Vietnamese: Tây Flanders
- Vietnamese: West-Vlaanderen
- Vlaams: Provinsje West-Vloandern
- Vlaams: West-Vloandern
- Volapük: Vesüda⸗Flanän
- Volapük: West-Vlaanderen
- Walloon: Flande coûtchantrece
- Walloon: Province di Flande coûtchantrece
- Walloon: Province di Wess-Flande
- 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
- Flandre Occidentale
- Provincia delle Fiandre Occidentali
- Wes-Vlaondere
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page West Flanders. Photo: MJJR, CC BY 3.0.