Borken

Borken is a small town with about 13,000 inhabitants in the in northern , . The town is a former centre for brown coal mining and coal-fired electrical generation in Hesse.
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Wikipedia
Rüdiger Wölk, CC BY-SA 2.5.
  • Town with about 12,200 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 210 metres (670 feet)
  • …is also known as “Borken, Hesse”
  • Description: town in Schwalm-Eder-Kreis in Hesse, Germany

Places of Interest

Highlights include Evangelische Stadtkirche Borken and Gombether See.
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is a church.
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is a lake in Westhessische Senke, , .
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kalbsburg.
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is a neighborhood, which is situated 5 km north of Borken.

Borken

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Latitude
51.04949° or 51° 2′ 58″ north
Longitude
9.28186° or 9° 16′ 55″ east
UN/LOCODE
DE BOJ
Open location code
9F3F27XJ+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240107872
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2946230
Wiki­data ID
Q565488

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Borken” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Borken”
  • Arabic: “بركن”
  • Arabic: “بوركن”
  • Aragonese: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Arpitan: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Asturian: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Basque: “Borken”
  • Bavarian: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Breton: “Borken”
  • Catalan: “Borken”
  • Cebuano: “Borken”
  • Chechen: “Боркен”
  • Chinese: “博爾肯”
  • Chinese: “黑森州博尔肯”
  • Corsican: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Croatian: “Borken”
  • Czech: “Borken”
  • Danish: “Borken”
  • Dutch: “Borken”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بركن”
  • Esperanto: “Borken”
  • Estonian: “Borken”
  • Finnish: “Borken”
  • French: “Borken”
  • Friulian: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Galician: “Borken”
  • German: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • German: “Borken”
  • Hungarian: “Borken”
  • Icelandic: “Borken”
  • Ido: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Indonesian: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Interlingua: “Borken”
  • Interlingue: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Irish: “Borken”
  • Italian: “Borken”
  • Japanese: “ボルケン”
  • Jèrriais: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Kazakh: “Borken”
  • Kazakh: “Боркен”
  • Kazakh: “بوركەن”
  • Kirghiz: “Боркен”
  • Kongo: “Borken”
  • Kurdish: “Borken, Hessen”
  • Kurdish: “Borken”
  • Ladin: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Ladin: “Borken”
  • Ligurian: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Limburgan: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Low German: “Borken”
  • Luxembourgish: “Borken”
  • Malagasy: “Borken”
  • Malay: “Borken, Hesse”
  • Malay: “Borken”
  • Minangkabau: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Neapolitan: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Borken”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borken i Hessen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borken”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Borken”
  • Persian: “برکن”
  • Picard: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Piemontese: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Polish: “Borken”
  • Portuguese: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Portuguese: “Borken”
  • Romanian: “Borken”
  • Romansh: “Borken”
  • Russian: “Боркен”
  • Sardinian: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Scots: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Borken”
  • Serbian: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Serbian: “Borken”
  • Serbian: “Боркен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Borken”
  • Sicilian: “Borken”
  • Slovak: “Borken”
  • Slovenian: “Borken”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برکن”
  • Spanish: “Borken (Hesse)”
  • Spanish: “Borken”
  • Swahili: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Swedish: “Borken”
  • Swiss German: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Tatar: “Боркен”
  • Turkish: “Borken”
  • Ukrainian: “Боркен”
  • Uzbek: “Borken”
  • Uzbek: “Боркен”
  • Venetian: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Vietnamese: “Borken”
  • Vlaams: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Volapük: “Borken”
  • Walloon: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Borken, Hesse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Borken”
  • Welsh: “Borken”
  • Wolof: “Borken (Hessen)”
  • Zulu: “Borken (Hessen)”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Am Stadtpark Bürgerhaus Borken and Rathaus Borken (Hessen).

Hesse: Highlights

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