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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: County with 381,000 residents
- Description: German district of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Also known as: “Borken (district)”, “DEA34”, and “Kreis Borken”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Vitus and St. Ludgerus.
Burg Ramsdorf
Historic building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burg Ramsdorf is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Südlohn and Velen.
Südlohn
Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Südlohn is a municipality in the district of Borken in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located right at the border with the Netherlands, approx. 10 km east of Winterswijk. It consists of the villages Südlohn and Oeding.
Velen
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Velen is a town in the district Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with about 12,000 citizens. It consists of the two settlements of Velen and Ramsdorf and the four rural regions Ostendorf-Krueckling, Bleking-Holthausen, Nordvelen and Waldvelen.
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″ northLongitude
6.9069° or 6° 54′ 25″ eastPopulation
381,000Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)Open location code
9F38WWF4+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 240096105OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
3247441Wikidata ID
Q6191
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Catalan: “Kreis 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: “חבל בורקן”
- Hungarian: “Borken kerület”
- Indonesian: “Borken”
- Italian: “circondario di Borken”
- Italian: “Circondario di Borken”
- Japanese: “ボルケン群”
- Japanese: “ボルケン郡”
- Kazakh: “Боркен”
- 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”
- Uzbek: “Borken”
- Vietnamese: “Borken”
- Waray (Philippines): “Borken”
- Western Frisian: “Borken”
- Western Panjabi: “بروکن”
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Localities in the Area
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