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{{Infobox settlement
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<!-- Name and transliteration -->
| name                    = Boxmeer
| settlement_type         = Town and former municipality
<!-- Images, nickname, motto -->
| image_skyline           = Overzicht van de voorgevel - Boxmeer - 20384805 - RCE.jpg
| image_alt               = 
| image_caption           = Former Boxmeer city hall (until 2010)
| image_flag              = Boxmeer vlag.svg
| flag_size               = 100x67px
| flag_alt                = 
| image_shield            = Coat of arms of Boxmeer.svg
| shield_size             = 100x80px
| shield_alt              = 
<!-- Maps, coordinates -->
| image_map               = Map - NL - Municipality code 0756 (2009).svg
| map_alt                 = Highlighted position of Boxmeer in a municipal map of North Brabant
| map_caption             = Location of the former municipality of Boxmeer in North Brabant
| pushpin_map             = Netherlands North Brabant#Netherlands
| pushpin_label_position  = 
| pushpin_mapsize         = 250
| pushpin_map_caption     = Location in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands
| subdivision_type        = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name        = Netherlands
| subdivision_type1       = [[Provinces of the Netherlands|Province]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[North Brabant]]
| subdivision_type2       = [[Municipalities of the Netherlands|Municipality]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[Land van Cuijk]]
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| unit_pref               = Metric
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| area_footnotes          = <ref name="stat"/>
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| area_total_km2          = 10.87
| area_land_km2           = 
| area_water_km2          = 
| elevation_footnotes     = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web 
 |url = http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool
 |title = Postcodetool for 5831JX
 |language = nl
 |author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> 
 |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
 |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis
 |access-date = 6 May 2014}}</ref>
| elevation_m             = 13
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| population_footnotes    = <ref name="stat">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbs.nl/-/media/_excel/2021/48/kwb-2021.xls |title=Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021 |website=Central Bureau of Statistics |access-date=17 April 2022}}</ref>
| population_total        = 12,565
| population_as_of        = 2021
| population_density_km2  = auto
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| population_demonym      = Boxmeerenaar
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| timezone                = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset              = +1
| timezone_DST            = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST          = +2
| postal_code_type        = [[Postal codes in the Netherlands|Postcode]]
| postal_code             = 5831<ref name="stat"/>
| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in the Netherlands|Area code]]
| area_code               = 0485
| website                 = {{URL|1=http://www.boxmeer.nl}}
| footnotes               =
| coordinates             = {{coord|51|39|N|5|57|E|region:NL|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes   = 
}}

'''Boxmeer''' ({{IPA|nl|bɔksˈmeːr|-|181 Boxmeer.ogg}}) is a town and former municipality in upper southeastern [[Netherlands]]. Boxmeer as a municipality incorporated the former municipality of [[Beugen en Rijkevoort]] and that of [[Vierlingsbeek]]. 

One of the population centers of the former municipality is [[Overloon]], where the [[Overloon War Museum]] is located.

Boxmeer, [[Cuijk]], [[Grave, Netherlands|Grave]], [[Mill en Sint Hubert]], and [[Sint Anthonis]] merged into the new municipality of [[Land van Cuijk]] on 1 January 2022.

==Topography==
[[File:Gem-Boxmeer-OpenTopo.jpg|left|400px|thumb|Map of the former municipality of Boxmeer, 2015]]
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[[File:Station Boxmeer in 2007, rijksmonument 10029.jpg|220px|thumb|Station Boxmeer]]
== Population centres ==
The population in parts of the former municipality on 31 December 2020 was:<ref>{{cite web |url= https://cbsinuwbuurt.nl/ |title=CBS in uw buurt |language=nl |publisher=CBS |access-date=28 September 2021}}</ref>

* Beugen 1,860
* Boxmeer 12,550
* [[Holthees]] 540
* Maashees 875
* [[Oeffelt]] 2,370
* [[Overloon]], including [[Heikant, Boxmeer|Heikant]] 3,985
* [[Rijkevoort]] 1,665
* [[Sambeek]] 1,745
* [[Vierlingsbeek]], including Groeningen 3,050
* Vortum-Mullem 705

== Transport ==
* [[Boxmeer railway station]]

== Notable people ==
[[File:Dionne Stax bij het Festival van de Journalistiek 2017 (37447584555).jpg|140px|thumb|Dionne Stax, 2017]]
[[File:Kika-van-es-1321139643.jpg|140px|thumb|Kika van Es, 2011]]
* Dr [[Anna Terruwe]] (1911 in Vierlingsbeek – 2004) a Catholic psychiatrist who discovered emotional deprivation disorder
* [[Joannes Gijsen]] (1932 in Oeffelt – 2013) a Dutch bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of [[Roermond]] and [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Reykjavík|Reykjavík]] 
* [[Emile Roemer]] (born 1962 in Boxmeer) a Dutch politician
* [[Hugo van der Velden]] (born 1963 in Boxmeer) a Dutch art historian
* [[Charles Deenen]] (born 1970 in Holthees) a Dutch computer/video game audio director, music composer, sound designer and mixer
* [[Dionne Stax]] (born 1985 in Boxmeer) a Dutch journalist and newsreader

=== Sport ===
* [[Sjaak Lucassen]] (born 1961 in Maashees) a Dutch long-distance motorcycle rider
* [[Niels Fleuren]] (born 1986 in Boxmeer) a Dutch professional footballer with 420 club caps
* [[Sander de Wijn]] (born 1990 in Boxmeer) a Dutch field hockey player, silver medallist at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Kika van Es]] (born 1991 in Boxmeer) a Dutch football defender

== Gallery ==
<gallery> 
File:Overzicht van de voorgevel - Boxmeer - 20384800 - RCE.jpg|Boxmeer, former townhall
File:Boxmeer, de Sint-Petrusbasiliek IMG 8330 2021-02-22 11.17.jpg|Boxmeer, basilica: the Sint-Petrusbasiliek
File:Diorama Invasion 1944 in Liberty Park, Overloon War Museum.jpg|[[Overloon War Museum]]
File:Overloon - Dromedaris met tankkoepelbult van Marjolijn Mandersloot op de hoek van de Museumlaan en de Venraijseweg.jpg|Overloon, sculpture
File:Vierlingsbeek, de Sint-Laurentiuskerk IMG 8299 2021-02-22 10.02.jpg|Vierlingsbeek, church: Sint Laurentiuskerk
File:Oeffelt, molen de Vooruitgang RM481740 IMG 5600 2020-05-21 16.09.jpg|Oeffelt, windmill: molen de Vooruitgang
</gallery>

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

== External links ==
*{{Commons category-inline}}
*{{Official website|http://www.boxmeer.nl }}

{{Geographic location
 | Centre    = Boxmeer
 | Northeast = ''[[Meuse (river)|Maas]]'' / [[Gennep]] ([[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
 | East      = ''[[Meuse (river)|Maas]]'' / [[Bergen, Limburg|Bergen]] ([[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
 | South     = [[Venray]] ([[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
 | West      = [[Sint Anthonis]]
 | Northwest = [[Cuijk]]
}}
{{Dutch municipality Land van Cuijk}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Former municipalities of North Brabant]]
[[Category:Populated places in North Brabant]]
[[Category:Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2022]]
[[Category:Geography of Land van Cuijk]]


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