A city of northwest Belgium connected by canal with the north Sea.

比利时西北部一城市，通过运河与北海相连。

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A city in northwestern Belgium in west Flanders province; connected by canal to the north sea; the old city is a popular tourist attraction.

比利时西北部西佛兰德省一城市；通过运河与北海相连；很受欢迎的游览胜地。

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The company's international headquarters in Zaandam is a squat, four-story building in the food-processing district along the North Sea canal.

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The only hold-up was the insistence of Admiral Tirpitz that it would be better to wait for the Baltic-North Sea canal to be widened and deepened (due in July 1914) and a submarine harbour on Heligoland to be completed.

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