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Haarlem is an industrial town and flower-bulb trading centre. This canal area has developed into a vital industrial district (IJmond) centred on IJmuiden, Velsen, and Beverwijk steel products, paper, fertilizer, and chemicals are manufactured. Of the fishing ports, IJmuiden, the foreport of Amsterdam at the western end of the North Sea Canal, is most important. Coastal resorts include Zandvoort, Bergen aan Zee, Egmond aan Zee, and Wijk aan Zee. The province contains Amsterdam, the chief city of the Netherlands.Īlong the shore, sand dunes form a smooth, unbroken protection for the inland regions. Formed by the division (1840) of Holland into North and South, its capital is Haarlem. The province, drained by the Zaan, Amstel, and Vecht rivers, is mainly low fenland, with dunes, and sea and river clays. The island of Marken in the IJsselmeer has been connected by embankment with the mainland since 1957 the former island of Wieringen, now united after drainage with the mainland, is the starting point of the Afsluitdijk, the 19-mile (31-km) dam that encloses the IJsselmeer and links Noord-Holland and Friesland. It includes the west Frisian island of Texel off its northern tip. It comprises a peninsula surrounded by the North Sea (west), the Waddenzee (north), and the IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel east). Noord-Holland, English North Holland, coastal provincie (province), northwestern Netherlands. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.