Borken
Borken is a Kreis in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany in the Münster region. Neighboring districts are Steinfurt, Coesfeld, Recklinghausen, Wesel, Cleves, Bentheim in the Lower Saxony and the Dutch provinces Gelderland and Overijssel.- Type: County with 381,000 residents
- Description: German district of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Also known as: “Borken (district)”, “DEA34”, and “ボルケン群”
Places of Interest
Highlights: St. Vitus and St. Ludgerus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Südlohn and Velen.
Borken
- Categories: rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Option municipality, and locality
- Location: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.923° or 51° 55′ 23″ north
Longitude
6.9069° or 6° 54′ 25″ east
Population
381,000
Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)
Open location code
9F38WWF4+6P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Western Panjabi—“Borken” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Districto de Borken”
- Armenian: “Բորկենի շրջան”
- Belarusian: “Боркен”
- Belarusian: “Раён Боркен”
- Catalan: “districte de Borken”
- Cebuano: “Kreis Borken”
- Chinese: “博尔肯县”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Borken”
- Danish: “Kreis Borken”
- Dutch: “Kreis Borken”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Borken”
- Estonian: “Borkeni kreis”
- French: “arrondissement de Borken”
- French: “Arrondissement de Borken”
- Georgian: “ბორკენის რაიონი”
- German: “Kreis Borken”
- Hebrew: “מחוז בורקן”
- Hungarian: “Borken járás”
- Indonesian: “Borken”
- Italian: “circondario di Borken”
- Italian: “Circondario di Borken”
- Japanese: “ボルケン郡”
- Kazakh: “Боркен”
- Korean: “보르켄군”
- Kurdish: “Borken”
- Ladin: “Kreis Borken”
- Limburgan: “Kreis Borken”
- Low German: “Landraodsamt Buorken”
- Malay: “Borken”
- Northern Frisian: “Borken (Kris)”
- Northern Frisian: “Borken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kreis Borken”
- Norwegian: “Kreis Borken”
- Persian: “بورکن”
- Polish: “Powiat Borken”
- Portuguese: “Borken”
- Romanian: “Borken”
- Russian: “Боркен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Borken”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Borken”
- Swedish: “Kreis Borken”
- Turkish: “Kreis Borken”
- Ukrainian: “Боркен”
- Urdu: “بورکن (ضلع)”
- Urdu: “بورکن”
- Uzbek: “Borken”
- Vietnamese: “Borken”
- Waray (Philippines): “Borken”
- Western Frisian: “Borken”
- Western Panjabi: “بروکن”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Holthausen and Lohner Brock.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Gerlingsbusch and Zum Karbohm.
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Worth a closer look: Cologne and Düsseldorf.
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