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{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name             = Kinrooi
|picture          = Kinrooi - Gemeentehuis.jpg
|picture-legend   = Kinrooi town hall
|map              = Kinrooi Limburg Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend       = Location of Kinrooi in Limburg
|arms             = Kinrooi wapen1.svg
|flag             = Kinrooi vlag.svg
|province         = [[Limburg (Belgium)|Limburg]]
|arrondissement   = [[Arrondissement of Maaseik|Maaseik]]
|nis              = 72018
|mayor            = {{Ill|Jo Brouns|nl}} ([[Christian Democratic and Flemish|CD&V]])<br>Wim Rutten (interim mayor)
|majority         = [[Christian Democratic and Flemish|CD&V]]
|postal-codes     = 3640
|telephone-area   = 089
|web              = [http://www.kinrooi.be/ www.kinrooi.be]
|coordinates      = {{coord|51|09|N|05|45|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}

'''Kinrooi''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈkɪnroːi}}; {{langx|li|Kinder}}) is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] in the [[Belgium|Belgian]] province of [[Limburg (Belgium)|Limburg]], between [[Maaseik]] and [[Bree, Belgium|Bree]]. On January 1, 2006, Kinrooi had a total population of 11,978. The total area is 54.76&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, which gives a [[population density]] of 219 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.

Kinrooi was formed on September 18, 1971, when the four municipalities Kinrooi, [[Kessenich]], [[Geistingen]]-[[Ophoven (Kinrooi)|Ophoven]] and [[Molenbeersel]] were fused. There have been three mayors. The current mayor is Jo Brouns.

==History==
Before, Kinrooi was a hamlet of the village of [[Kessenich]]. The flag reminds to that; the clarions stood on the shield of Kessenich. After the independence of Belgium in 1839 it became a little municipality, together with some nearby hamlets. In 2005 there are prehistoric remains found in the center, when it was being renovated.

==Economy==
[[Image:Kinrooi, molen foto2 2011-03-20 13.08.JPG|thumb|upright|left|The "Lemmensmolen" in Kinrooi]]

Kinrooi's main economic activities are agriculture, tourism and the reclamation of gravel, sand and loam.
The downside of this reclamation is that a lot of land surface gets lost. Tourism is also an important resource. Kinrooi attracts a lot of tourists because it has seven nature reserves that harbor rare animal and plant species, it has a marina and because it has several old windmills. Besides, there is a lot of watersporting, in the old gravel pools. One of them, lying in Ophoven, is now the greatest inner harbour of Europe.
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==Places of interest==
* The {{Ill|Lemmensmolen|nl}}, a windmill built in 1856
* {{Ill|Sint-Martinuskerk (Kinrooi)|nl}}, a neogotical church built in 1853

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline}}
* {{Official website|http://www.kinrooi.be }} {{in lang|nl}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Kinrooi
|N = [[Weert]] ([[Netherlands|NL]]-[[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]]), [[Leudal]] ([[Netherlands|NL]]-[[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
|E = [[Maasgouw]] ([[Netherlands|NL]]-[[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
|S = [[Maaseik]]
|W = [[Bocholt, Belgium|Bocholt]]<br/>[[Bree, Belgium|Bree]]
}}
{{Municipalities in Limburg}}
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