Editing Borger-Odoorn

{{Infobox settlement
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<!-- Name and transliteration -->
| name                    = Borger-Odoorn
| settlement_type         = [[List of municipalities of the Netherlands|Municipality]]
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| image_skyline           = Zuiderdiep291 Tweede Exloermond.jpg
| image_alt               = 
| image_caption           = Monumental home in [[Tweede Exloërmond]]
| image_flag              = Borger-Odoorn vlag.svg
| flag_size               = 100x67px
| flag_alt                = 
| image_shield            = Coat of arms of Borger-Odoorn.svg
| shield_size             = 100x80px
| shield_alt              = 
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| image_map               = Map - NL - Municipality code 1681 (2009).svg
| map_alt                 = Highlighted position of Borger-Odoorn in a municipal map of Drenthe
| map_caption             = Location in Drenthe
| coordinates             = {{coord|52|53|N|6|52|E|region:NL|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes   = 
| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = [[Netherlands]]
| subdivision_type1       = Province
| subdivision_name1       = [[Drenthe]]
| established_title       = Established
| established_date        = 1 January 1998<ref>{{cite web 
 |url = http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/methoden/classificaties/overzicht/gemeentelijke-indeling/1998/default.htm
 |title = Gemeentelijke indeling op 1 januari 1998
 |trans-title=Municipal divisions on 1 January 1998
 |language = Dutch
 |website = cbs.nl
 |publisher = [[Statistics Netherlands|CBS]]
 |accessdate = 5 October 2013}}</ref>
| government_footnotes    = <ref name="mayor_now">{{cite web
 |url = http://www.borger-odoorn.nl/bestuur-en-organisatie/burgemeester-en-wethouders.html
 |title = Burgemeester en wethouders
 |trans-title = Mayor and aldermen
 |language = Dutch
 |author = 
 |date = 
 |publisher = Gemeente Borger-Odoorn
 |accessdate = 5 October 2013
 |archive-date = 17 November 2020
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201117000621/https://www.borger-odoorn.nl/bestuur-en-organisatie/burgemeester-en-wethouders.html
 |url-status = dead
 }}</ref>
| governing_body          = [[Municipal council (Netherlands)|Municipal council]]
| leader_party            = [[Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]]
| leader_title            = [[Burgemeester|Mayor]]
| leader_name             = [[Jan Seton]]
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| unit_pref               = Metric
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| area_footnotes          = <ref>{{Dutch municipality total area|dataref}}</ref>
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| area_total_km2          = {{Dutch municipality total area|Borger-Odoorn}}
| area_land_km2           = {{Dutch municipality land area|Borger-Odoorn}}
| area_water_km2          = {{Dutch municipality water area|Borger-Odoorn}}
| elevation_footnotes     = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web 
 |url = http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool
 |title = Postcodetool for 7875AD
 |trans-title=|language = Dutch
 |author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> 
 |date = 
 |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
 |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis
 |accessdate = 5 October 2013}}</ref>
| elevation_m             = 23
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| population_footnotes    = <ref>{{Dutch municipality population|dataref}}</ref>
| population_total        = {{Dutch municipality population|Borger-Odoorn}}
| population_as_of        = {{MONTHNAME|{{Dutch municipality population|popbasemonth}}}} {{Dutch municipality population|popbaseyear}}
| population_density_km2  = {{Dutch municipality population density|Borger-Odoorn}} <!-- For automatic calculation: auto-->
| population_demonym      = 
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| timezone1               = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset1             = +1
| timezone1_DST           = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset1_DST         = +2
| postal_code_type        = [[Postal codes in the Netherlands|Postcode]]
| postal_code             = Parts of 7800 and 9500 range
| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in the Netherlands|Area code]]
| area_code               = 0591, 0599
| website                 = {{URL|1=http://www.borger-odoorn.nl}}
| footnotes               =
}}
'''Borger-Odoorn''' ({{IPA|nl|ˌbɔrɣər oːˈdoːr(ə)n|-|Nl-Borger-Odoorn.oga}}) is a [[Municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] in the northeastern [[Netherlands]] in the province of [[Drenthe]]. 

The local Hunebedcentrum Borger features several [[megaliths]] (or 'hunebeds') associated with the [[Neolithic]] and mesolithic [[Funnelbeaker culture]], as well as recreations of historical houses.

== Population centers ==
{{columns-list|colwidth=10em|
* [[Borger, Netherlands|Borger]]
* [[Bronneger]]
* [[Bronnegerveen]]
* [[Buinen]]
* [[Buinerveen]]
* [[Drouwen]]
* [[Drouwenermond]]
* [[Drouwenerveen]]
* [[Eerste Exloërmond]]
* [[Ees, Drenthe|Ees]]
* [[Eesergroen]]
* [[Eeserveen]]
* [[Ellertshaar]]
* [[Exloërveen]]
* [[Exloo]]
* [[Klijndijk]]
* [[Nieuw-Buinen]]
* [[Odoorn]]
* [[Odoornerveen]]
* [[Tweede Exloërmond]]
* [[Tweede Valthermond]]
* [[Valthe]]
* [[Valthermond]]
* [[Westdorp]]
* [[Zandberg, Groningen-Drenthe|Zandberg]].
}}
===Topography===
[[File:Gem-BorgerOdoorn-OpenTopo.jpg|480px|]]

''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, June 2015.''

== Notable people ==
[[File:Egbert Schuurman.jpg|125px|thumb|Egbert Schuurman, 2011]]
* [[Albert Meems]] (1888 in Nieuw-Buinen – after 1957) a Dutch spy for Germany in the Second World War
* [[Pieter van Boven]] (1898 – 1952) a Dutch fencer, competed at the [[1924 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Egbert Schuurman]] (born 1937 in Borger) a Dutch engineer, philosopher and politician
* [[Henk Nienhuis]] (1941 in Nieuw-Buinen – 2017) a Dutch footballer and manager. 
* [[Henk G. Sol]] (born 1951 in Borger) a Dutch organizational theorist and academic
* [[Carsten de Dreu]] (born 1966 in Borger) Professor of Psychology at [[Leiden University]] and Behavioral Economics at the [[University of Amsterdam]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode=packed>
File:Zuiderdiep123 gereformeerde kerk Tweede Exloermond.jpg|Zuiderdiep123 gereformeerde kerk Tweede Exloermond
File:Boerderij Zuiderdiep309 Valthermond.jpg|Boerderij Zuiderdiep309 Valthermond
File:Valthermond spoor 27.jpg|Valthermond spoor
File:Trafohuisje Hoofdstraat Buinen.jpg|Trafohuisje Hoofdstraat Buinen
File:Odoorn 190.JPG|Odoorn
File:Hunebed-d27.jpg|Megalith at Hunebedcentrum Borger 
File:Borger neolithisch huis.jpg|Reconstruction of a Funnelbeaker house
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.borger-odoorn.nl Official website]

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{{Geographic location
|Centre    = Borger-Odoorn
|North     = 
|Northeast = [[Stadskanaal]]{{space}}([[Groningen (province)|GR]])
|East      = [[Vlagtwedde]]{{space}}([[Groningen (province)|GR]])
|Southeast = [[Emmen, Netherlands|Emmen]]
|South     = 
|Southwest = [[Coevorden]]
|West      = 
|Northwest = [[Aa en Hunze]]
}}

{{Drenthe Province}}
{{Borger-Odoorn town}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Borger-Odoorn| ]]
[[Category:Municipalities of Drenthe]]
[[Category:Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 1998]]


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