Flemish Diamond
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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.[1] It consists of four agglomerations which form the four corners of an abstract diamond shape: Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp and Leuven.[2]
In 2007, approximately 5 million people lived in this area, with a population density of about 820 per square kilometer[3] which accounted for roughly 47% of the total population of the country (c. 10.5 million).