Burgum is the largest and administrative town of the municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel, in the Dutch province of Friesland.

In ancient and medieval times, habitation in Friesland occurred only in those areas which were elevated above sea level (for example in Burgum) or on artificially built mounds known as terp, weird or ward.

The artificial mounds became redundant after the building of the dykes on the border of the Wadden Sea.

Main things to see in Burgum are the Town Hall and the Krústsjerke (Cross Church) which is the remainder of a convent burned in the Eighty Years' War.

A large stone deposited in this area during the last ice age (11,000 BC).