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BELGIUM’S GEOGRAPHY & LANDSCAPE

Educational Video This 10 minute video provides a brief insight into Belgium’s geography. Scan the QR code with your phone to watch!

Flanders is divided into three topographical zones. The Polder Zone is the coastal plain, never reaching more than nine miles (14 kilometers) wide at any point. Altitudes in the region range from zero to 164 feet (50 meters). Reaching from the Polder Zone to the river Scheldt are the Flemish Plains. The landscape is mostly flat, with the highest altitude being sixty-five feet (20 meters). A line of hills occasionally breaks through the region’s flatlands.

ABOVE: The river Scheldt near the Flemish village of Vlassenbroek, Flanders. 12