Belgium’s regional and provincial flags
Two regions, Brussels and ten provinces: lions in black, red and gold, Walloon cockerels, an iris and a checkerboard in four colours.
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Belgium is split three ways: Flanders in the Dutch-speaking north, Wallonia in the French-speaking south, and Brussels, the capital, in between. Flanders and Wallonia each have five provinces; Brussels belongs to neither and has none.
Lions are everywhere. The black lion of Flanders and the red lion of Limburg turn up on several provincial flags, and Belgium’s own coat of arms is a gold lion on black.
The regions
Flanders
The black lion of Flanders on gold.
Wallonia
A red cockerel on gold.
Brussels
A stylised yellow iris on blue. The iris is Brussels’ emblem; this flag replaced an older, more realistic iris in 2015.
Flanders’ provinces
Antwerp
A checkerboard of red, white, yellow and blue.
West Flanders
Blue and yellow rays fanning out from a red shield in the middle.
East Flanders
The black lion of Flanders over green and white stripes.
Flemish Brabant
A gold lion on black, like Belgium’s own, holding a small red-white-red shield, the colours of Leuven.
Limburg
A red lion on white, with a red and gold striped shield on its chest. Don’t confuse it with Dutch Limburg across the border: the two were one province until 1839.
Wallonia’s provinces
Walloon Brabant
A black triangle with a gold lion inside, on yellow, with a red Walloon cockerel in each top corner.
Hainaut
Quartered on gold: two black lions and two red ones, the lions of Flanders and Holland. Hainaut’s medieval counts ruled one or the other of them too.
Liège
Busy: a column (the perron, Liège’s old symbol of its freedoms) between the letters L and G on red, green lions, and red and gold stripes.
Namur
Black and red, side by side.
Luxembourg
Red, white and blue stripes with a crowned coat of arms. The province shares the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg’s colours: the two were one until 1839, when the western, French-speaking part went to Belgium.
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