Flemish Diamond

Flemish Diamond
Vlaamse Ruit
Conurbation
Brussels, capital and largest city of Belgium
Brussels, capital and largest city of Belgium
Location of Flemish Diamond
Country Belgium
Regions
Largest cities
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A map of the Flemish Diamond within Belgium.
Map highlighting the cities and other urbanized municipalities within the "Flemish Diamond".
The Flemish Diamond has a high degree of urban sprawl.

The Flemish Diamond (Dutch: Vlaamse Ruit) is the Flemish reference to a network of four metropolitan areas in Belgium, three of which are in the central provinces of Flanders, together with the Brussels-Capital Region. It consists of four agglomerations which form the four corners of an abstract diamond shape: Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp and Leuven.

In 2007, approximately 5 million people lived in this area, with a population density of about 820 per square kilometer which accounted for roughly 47% of the total population of the country (c. 10.5 million).

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