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Paderborn (Low German: Patterbuorncode: nds is deprecated , Paterboärn) is a city in the middle west of Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and "born", an old German term for the source of a river. The river Pader originates in more than 200 springs near Paderborn Cathedral.It has about 150,338 inhabitants and a university.