Borger-Odoorn () is a 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
Topography
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, June 2015.
Notable people
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Albert Meems (1888 in Nieuw-Buinen – after 1957) a Dutch spy for Germany in the Second World War
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Pieter van Boven (1898 – 1952) a Dutch fencer, competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics
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Egbert Schuurman (born 1937 in Borger) a Dutch engineer, philosopher and politician
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Henk Nienhuis (1941 in Nieuw-Buinen – 2017) a Dutch footballer and manager.
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Henk G. Sol (born 1951 in Borger) a Dutch organizational theorist and academic
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Carsten de Dreu (born 1966 in Borger) Professor of Psychology at Leiden University and Behavioral Economics at the University of Amsterdam
Gallery
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
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