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West Flanders
West Flanders
( ;
West Flemish
:
West Vloandern
;
French
:
(Province de) Flandre-Occidentale
;
German
:
Westflandern
) is the most western
province
of
the Flemish Region, also named Flanders
, in
Belgium
. It borders (clockwise from the North) on the
Netherlands
, the
Flemish
province of
East Flanders
(
Oost-Vlaanderen
) and the
Walloon
province of
Hainaut
(
Henegouwen
) in
Belgium
, on
France
and the
North Sea
. Its capital is
Bruges
(
Brugge
). Other important cities are
Kortrijk
in the south and
Ostend
on the coast,
Roeselare
and
Ypres
. The province has an area of 3,125 km² which is divided into eight administrative districts (
arrondissementen
) containing 64 municipalities.
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