Borre, Nord

French commune
nomcommune=Borre
Aerial view of Borre
région=Nord-Pas-de-Calais
département=Nord
arrondissement=Dunkerque
canton=Hazebrouck-Sud
insee=59091
cp=59190
maire=Jean Catteau
mandat=1989-2008
intercomm=Communauté de communes rurales des Monts de Flandres
longitude=2.583
latitude=50.73
alt moy=20 m
alt mini=17 m
alt maxi=36 m
hectares=596
km²=5.96
sans=540
date-sans=1999
dens=91
nomhab=Borrois, Borroises
date-dens=1999

Borre is a village and commune in the Nord "département" of France. The population is 540 (1999). The village's name is of Saxon, or Frankish originFact|date=July 2008.

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.

Demographics

DemogFR
1793= 796
1800= 771
1806= 843
1821= 756
1831= 803
1836= 800
1841= 776
1846= 775
1851= 770
1856= 711
1861= 733
1866= 703
1872= 774
1876= 757
1881= 792
1886= 772
1891= 752
1896= 696
1901= 651
1906= 655
1911= 645
1921= 612
1926= 571
1931= 569
1936= 536
1946= 516
1954= 521
1962= 483
1968= 455
1975= 419
1982= 465
1990= 473
1999= 540
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Source : Cassini [ [http://cassini.ehess.fr/cassini/fr/html/6_index.htm http://cassini.ehess.fr/ Population since 1962] ] and INSEE [ [http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm Borre at the Insee] ]

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