Borger-Odoorn (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌbɔrɣər oːˈdoːr(ə)n] ) 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 re-creations of historical houses.
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Population centers
Topography
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, June 2015.
Notable people
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