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The Flemish Diamond (in 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.〔 Note: The Flemish government has no authority on economical matters in the Brussels Capital Region, which with nearby Flemish municipalities (with industrial areas in the directions of the Brussels airport, which is located in Flanders, and of or at the small cities of Vilvoorde and Asse) (de Vries, 2002, p. 139), forms one of the major economic metropolitan areas of the conurbation ''aka'' metropolitan region that is nevertheless called the'' 'Flemish'' Diamond'. 〕*About constitutionally defined competences, see Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. Association of a fraction of the Walloon Region with the Brussels metropolitan area, by some sources, was contested by others. See e.g.: * * * Herman Deweerdt ((AK-VSZ )): ''Het is zeker waar dat de Vlaamse ruit een centrum van economische activiteit is en dus een zeer belangrijke basis vormt voor de financiering van de sociale zekerheid, ()aar voor de gelegenheid Brussel weglaten en er Waals-Brabant bijvoegen om dan te beweren dat het centrum van het land de rest financiert, is niet correct. ('Surely the Flemish Diamond is a centre of economic activity and thus forms a base for social security financing, but for that occasion omitting Brussels and adding Walloon Brabant, for then posing that the country's centre is financing the remainder, is not correct.')'' It consists of four agglomerations which form the four corners of a diamond shape: Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp and Leuven.〔 〕 Over five million people live in this conurbation, with a population density of more than 800 per square kilometre.〔 name=terminology>Note: There appear no ''generally'' accepted precise definitions with clear similarities or distinctions for, e.g.: 'conurbation', 'megaplex', metropolitan region, metropolitan area, urban agglomeration. A conurbation can be described as a group of metropolitan areas (each around one city), as such forming a socio-economical metropolitan region that is not fully urbanized, and may not have an obvious centre or precise boundaries – which causes statistical e.g. economical or demographical data to be approximations only. For related details, see e.g.: *〕 == History == There is no national or federal concept or recognition of a poly-centric conurbation in Belgium that consists of Brussels and any of the other major Belgian metropolitan areas that are relatively proximate to the national capital (lie within a radius of approximately around Brussels). The matter is the exclusive competence of the regional authorities, and as such, the autonomous Flemish government developed the geographic and socio-economic concept of ''Vlaamse Ruit'' or "Flemish Diamond" in the 1990s. The Francophone counterpart is the ''Triangle Wallon'' ("Walloon Triangle"), consisting of Brussels and three Walloon metropolitan areas, namely Mons, Charleroi, and Namur. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flemish Diamond」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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