Borre, Nord

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Coordinates: 50°43′48″N 2°34′59″E / 50.73, 2.583

Administration
Commune of Borre Aerial view of Borre
Location

Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Hazebrouck-Sud
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes rurales des Monts de Flandres
Mayor	Jean Catteau (1989-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	17 m–36 m (avg. 20 m)
Land area^¹	5.96 km²
Population^² (1999)	540
- Density	91/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	59091/ 59190
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Borre is a village and commune in the Nord département of France. The population is 540 (1999). The city's name is of Saxon, or Frankish origin.

In this village (route de Sec-Bois) is located the 'Borre British Cemetery' with 370 graves from the first world war.

In 1940 one of the first German planes damaged in the North of France fell there. Plenty of people came there to see this event but when the bombs it was loaded with exploded, one hundred of civilians and militians were killed.

[edit] Demographics

Date of Population

1793	1800	1806	1820	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
796	771	843	-	-	803	800	776	775	770

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
711	733	703	774	757	792	772	752	696

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
651	655	645	612	571	569	536	516	521

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2004	-	-
483	455	419	465	473	540	-	-	-
For the census of 1962 to 1999 the official population corresponds with the population without duplicates according to the INSEE.