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List of municipalities of the Flemish Region

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ2610835 ↗
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At the creation of Belgium in 1831, there were 2,739 municipalities in the country, which had fallen to 2,663 municipalities by 1961. Following a series of decisions and actions, carried out in 1975, 1983, 2019, and 2025 the fusion of the Belgian municipalities reduced the national total to 565 municipalities. Of these, the following is a list of the 285 municipalities in the Flemish Region of Belgium. The numbers refer to the location of the municipalities on the maps of the respective provinces.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1831, 1961, 1975, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, municipalities and Flemish is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of municipalities of the Flemish Region” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.