'''Flanders Fields Country''' (''Westhoek'' in Dutch; also known as the Western Corner) [http://www.westhoek.be/westhoektoerisme/index.html] is one of the tourist regions of the Flemish province of West Flanders (Belgium). It borders the Flemish Coast to the North, the Bruges Ommeland to the Northeast, the Leie Region to the East and France to the South and West.
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Ypres -- site of famous battles in WW I
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The region has suffered a lot from both world wars. It is perhaps Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae's famous poem which best describes the horrors witnessed in the region during the last century:
"In Flanders Fields the poppies blow <br>
Between the crosses row on row, <br>
That mark our place; and in the sky <br>
The larks, still bravely singing, fly <br>
Scarce heard amid the guns below."
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