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The capital and biggest city is Ghent, also the second largest city in the Flemish Region. Other smaller cities are Aalst, Sint-Niklaas and Dendermonde in the east of the province. The eastern part of the province, part of the Flemish Diamond, is more densely populated than the western part.
It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. [2] It is a port and university city.
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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. Its elected government has.
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The capital and biggest city is Ghent, also the second largest city in the Flemish Region. Other smaller cities are Aalst, Sint-Niklaas and Dendermonde in the east of the province. Its highest point is Hotondberg, 150 m (492 ft) high, in the municipality of Kluisbergen, Oudenaarde district.
Ghent , Flemish Gent French Gand, City (pop., 2000 est.: 224,180), capital of East Flanders province, northwestern Belgium. One of the chief towns of the medieval county of Flanders, Ghent was one of the largest towns in northern Europe by the 13th century.
The capital of East Flanders province, Ghent lies at the meeting point of the Lys and Schelde rivers in Belgium. Two canals provide access to the North Sea, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) distant. A network of smaller canals and streams within the city is spanned by more than 200 bridges.
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The capital is Ghent, home to the Ghent University and the Port of Ghent. Quick Facts Oost-Vlaanderen (Dutch)Ôost-Vloandern (West Flemish), Country ... Close. History. During the short-lived Napoleonic Empire, most of the area of the modern province was part of the Department of Escaut, named after the River Scheldt.
