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BLANKENBERGHE , a seaside watering- place on theSee also: North See also: Sea in the province of West See also: Flanders, Belgium, 12 M
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N.E. of See also: Ostend, and about 9 M
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N.W. of Bruges, with which it is connected by railway
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It is more bracing than Ostend, and has a See also: fine parade over a mile in length
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During the season, which extends from See also: June to See also: September, it receives a large number of visitors, probably over 6o,000 altogether, from See also: Germany as well as from Belgium
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There is a small fishing See also: port as well as a considerable fishing-See also: fleet
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Two See also: miles north of this place along the See also: dunes is Zeebrugge, the point at which the new See also: ship-canal from Bruges enters the North Sea
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Fixed population (19o4) 5925
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