HAZEBROUCK, an arrondissement of the department of the North, in France, extending over 275 square miles, divided into seven cantons, and those into fifty-three communes, with 100,936 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It is situated on the river Borre, and on a canal. It is an ill-built place, with 961 houses and 7354 inhabitants, who carry on manufactures of linen, twine, sailcloth, lace, and cottons, and also refineries of salt, and make snuff and starch. Long. 2. 27. E. Lat. 50. 44. N.