Borna (German pronunciation: [ˈbɔʁna] ⓘ) is a town in Saxony, Germany, capital of the Leipzig district.

Since the early 19th century the landscape around Borna has been shaped by open-cast mining of brown coal (lignite) with an apex in the 1980s.

For the last 20 years there have been huge efforts to revegetate this landscape e. g. by flooding opencast pits and creating new lakes as well as planting thousands of trees.

(December 31 each year) On January 14, 1867, with the completion of the Borna-Neukieritzsch line, Borna joined the German railway network.

This rail connection was financed by a partnership between private concerns and the town and was the only municipal railway in the Kingdom of Saxony.