a large town in West Yorkshire, in northern England. In the past it was a centre of the wool industry. the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia 哈利法克斯（加拿大新斯科舍省首府） - the Halifax
a large former building society in Britain, established in 1852. It became a bank in 1997 and in 2001 it joined with the Bank of Scotland to form HBOS.