The international geography . sque sur-roundings, their active river trade, and their important markets. In thesouth of the kingdom are the fertile districts and manufacturing centres ofBreda, Tilbiirg, sHertogenbosch {Bois-Ie-Duc) in North Brabant and Maas-tricht in Limburg. The last two are also provincial capitals. The mostimportant city in the centre of the kingdom is Utrecht, on soil intermediatebetween the pure clays and the pure sands ; it is a provincialcapital, seat of a university, and an important railway junction. TheHelder, in North Holland, stands at the entrance of the North Hol
The international geography . sque sur-roundings, their active river trade, and their important markets. In thesouth of the kingdom are the fertile districts and manufacturing centres ofBreda, Tilbiirg, sHertogenbosch {Bois-Ie-Duc) in North Brabant and Maas-tricht in Limburg. The last two are also provincial capitals. The mostimportant city in the centre of the kingdom is Utrecht, on soil intermediatebetween the pure clays and the pure sands ; it is a provincialcapital, seat of a university, and an important railway junction. TheHelder, in North Holland, stands at the entrance of the North HollandCanal, and possesses several naval institurioas. In the same province areHaarlem, capital of the province, and busy with the cultivation of flower-bulbs, and Amsterdam, the largest town, and one of the two chief com-mercial centres, famous for its Exchange and money market, its shipping,manufactures, diamond-cutting, and for its university and museums. Thewestern parts of the province of South Holland are the most densely. Fig. 112.—Amsterdam, showing chiefpolders in its vicinity. Belgium 223 peopled districts in the kingdom. There are the towns of The Hague{s Gravenhage), the capital of the kingdom and seat of the chief artisticindustries; Delfl, a cheese and butter market, with manufactures of finepottery, and of spirits; Dordrecht, with active river-shipping and trade intimber, corn and wine ; Leiden, the scat of an ancient university, with aflourishing market, and a still considerable manufacture of cloth and cotton ;Schiedam, best known for its spirit distilleries producing gin or Hollands,but also important as a corn-market ; and Rotterdam, one of the mostfamous seaports and commercial centres on the Continent, though thebulk of its commercial activity is in connection with transit trade. STATISTICS. Area of the Netherlands (square miles)Population of the Xetherlands .. 4,01Density of population per square mPopulation of Amsterdam „ Rotterdam „ The Hague Utrecht
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