Borkum
Borkum is the biggest of the East Frisian Islands by area and the second most populous. The town of Borkum stretches across the entire island, which, as a state-approved North Sea health resort, has numerous spa facilities.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Borkum Great Light and Old Lighthouse.
Borkum Great Light
Borkum
- Type: Town with 5,560 residents
- Description: municipality in Germany
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, border city, coastal spa, Einheitsgemeinde of Lower Saxony, and locality
- Location: Leer, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
53.5903° or 53° 35′ 25″ north
Longitude
6.6682° or 6° 40′ 6″ east
Population
5,560
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
BMK
United Nations Location Code
DE BMK
Open location code
9F58HMR9+47
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Borkum” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Borkum”
- Arabic: “بوركوم”
- Aragonese: “Borkum”
- Armenian: “Բորկում”
- Arpitan: “Borkum”
- Asturian: “Borkum”
- Basque: “Borkum”
- Bavarian: “Borkum”
- Breton: “Borkum”
- Catalan: “Borkum”
- Cebuano: “Borkum”
- Chechen: “Боркум”
- Chinese: “Borkum”
- Chinese: “博尔库姆”
- Corsican: “Borkum”
- Croatian: “Borkum”
- Czech: “Borkum”
- Danish: “Borkum”
- Dutch: “Borkum”
- Esperanto: “Borkum”
- Estonian: “Borkum”
- Finnish: “Borkum”
- French: “Borkum”
- Friulian: “Borkum”
- Galician: “Borkum”
- Georgian: “ბორკუმი”
- German: “Borkum”
- German: “Börkum”
- Hebrew: “בורקום”
- Hungarian: “Borkum”
- Icelandic: “Borkum”
- Ido: “Borkum”
- Indonesian: “Borkum”
- Interlingua: “Borkum”
- Interlingue: “Borkum”
- Irish: “Borkum”
- Italian: “Borkum”
- Japanese: “ボルクム”
- Japanese: “ボルクム島”
- Kazakh: “Боркум”
- Kirghiz: “Боркум”
- Kongo: “Borkum”
- Kurdish: “Borkum”
- Ladin: “Borkum”
- Latin: “Borkna”
- Latin: “Borkum”
- Ligurian: “Borkum”
- Limburgan: “Borkum”
- Lithuanian: “Borkumas”
- Low German: “Borkum”
- Low German: “Börkum”
- Luxembourgish: “Borkum”
- Macedonian: “Боркум”
- Malagasy: “Borkum”
- Malay: “Borkum”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Borkum”
- Minangkabau: “Borkum”
- Mingrelian: “პელვორმი”
- Narom: “Borkum”
- Neapolitan: “Borkum”
- Northern Frisian: “Börkem”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borkum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borkum”
- Norwegian: “Borkum”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Borkum”
- Persian: “برکوم”
- Picard: “Borkum”
- Piemontese: “Borkum”
- Polish: “Borkum”
- Portuguese: “Borkum”
- Romanian: “Borkum”
- Romansh: “Borkum”
- Russian: “Боркум”
- Sardinian: “Borkum”
- Saterfriesisch: “Borkum”
- Scots: “Borkum”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Borkum”
- Serbian: “Borkum”
- Serbian: “Боркум”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Borkum”
- Sicilian: “Borkum”
- Slovak: “Borkum”
- Slovenian: “Borkum”
- South Azerbaijani: “برکوم”
- Spanish: “Borkum”
- Swahili: “Borkum”
- Swedish: “Borkum”
- Swiss German: “Borkum”
- Tatar: “Боркум”
- Thai: “บอร์คุม”
- Tumbuka: “Borkum”
- Turkish: “Borkum”
- Ukrainian: “Боркум”
- Urdu: “بورکم”
- Uzbek: “Borkum”
- Venetian: “Borkum”
- Veps: “Borkum”
- Vietnamese: “Borkum”
- Vlaams: “Borkum”
- Volapük: “Borkum”
- Walloon: “Borkum”
- Waray (Philippines): “Borkum”
- Welsh: “Borkum”
- Western Frisian: “Boarkum”
- Wolof: “Borkum”
- Wu Chinese: “博尔库姆”
- Zulu: “Borkum”
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