I like Lions!![](http://www.vvb.org/winkel/images/VlagOff.gif)
That's not The Belgian Flag.
No it is the Flemish flag. Belgium is a artificially created country in 1830.
Flanders is about 1200 years now.
We want to become independent.
the real Flemish flag looks like this:
![](http://www.vvb.org/winkel/images/VlagGZ.gif)
the belgian flag looks like this:
![](http://vboostrozebeke.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/gescheurde-vlag.jpg)
Because someone changed the tongue & claws into red, to resemble the belgian flag.
we call this flag "de Jeanette-Leeuw"
Or the Fag-Lion.
![](http://www.vvb.org/winkel/images/VlagOff.gif)