History of Voeren Flemish Dutch speaking municipality

Voeren is part of Flanders. It belongs to the Flemish province of Limburg. However, it’s not actually physically connected to any part of the rest of Limburg. Instead, Voeren is floating about 30 kilometers away from — and so is completely isolated from — the rest of Limburg. It has no common boundary with Limburg Voeren is a Flemish Dutch-speaking municipality with facilities for the French-speaking minority, located in the Belgian province of Limburg. The current municipality of Voeren was not established until 1977. Before then, the six villages were involved in a kind of linguistic tug-of-war.