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  1. Industrial city and capital of North Holland,
  2. the Netherlands, 20 km/12 mi W of Amsterdam;
  3. population (1988) 214,000. At Velsea to the N
  4. a road-rail tunnel runs under the North Sea
  5. Canal, linking N and S Holland. Industries
  6. include chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles,
  7. and printing. Haarlem is famous for flowering
  8. bulbs and has a 15th-16th-century cathedral
  9. and a Frans Hals museum.
  10.