Westerland
Westerland is a seaside resort and a former municipality located on the German North Sea island of Sylt. Since 1 January 2009, Westerland has been part of the municipality Gemeinde Sylt.
- Type: Town with 9,080 residents
- Description: town on the island of Sylt
- Also known as: “Wäästerlön”, “Waasterlun”, “Waeaesterloen”, “Weesterloen”, “Westerland, Germany”, “ヴェスターラント”, “ヴェスターラント (ドイツ)”, “ヴェスターラント（ドイツ）”, “ヴェステルラント”, and “維斯特蘭”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sylt and St. Nicholas church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tinnum and Wenningstedt-Braderup.
Tinnum
Village
Photo: Marschmensch, Public domain.Wenningstedt-Braderup
Village
Munkmarsch
Village
Westerland
- Categories: Ortsteil, coastal spa, and locality
- Location: Sylt, Kreis Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.90649° or 54° 54′ 23″ north
Longitude
8.30717° or 8° 18′ 26″ east
Population
9,080
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
GWT
UN/LOCODE
DE GWT
Open location code
9F6CW844+HV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Westerland” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Westerland”
- Aragonese: “Westerland”
- Arpitan: “Westerland”
- Asturian: “Westerland”
- Basque: “Westerland”
- Bavarian: “Westerland”
- Belarusian: “Вестэрланд”
- Breton: “Westerland”
- Catalan: “Westerland”
- Cebuano: “Westerland”
- Chechen: “Вестерланд”
- Chinese: “维斯特兰”
- Chinese: “韋斯特蘭”
- Chinese: “韦斯特兰”
- Corsican: “Westerland”
- Croatian: “Westerland”
- Czech: “Westerland”
- Danish: “Vesterland”
- Dutch: “Westerland”
- Esperanto: “Westerland”
- Estonian: “Westerland”
- Finnish: “Westerland”
- French: “Westerland”
- Friulian: “Westerland”
- Galician: “Westerland”
- German: “Westerland”
- Greek: “Βέστερλαντ”
- Hebrew: “וסטרלנד”
- Hungarian: “Westerland”
- Icelandic: “Westerland”
- Ido: “Westerland”
- Indonesian: “Westerland”
- Interlingua: “Westerland”
- Interlingue: “Westerland”
- Irish: “Westerland”
- Italian: “Westerland”
- Japanese: “ヴェスターランド”
- Jèrriais: “Westerland”
- Kazakh: “Вестерланд”
- Kirghiz: “Вестерланд”
- Kongo: “Westerland”
- Ligurian: “Westerland”
- Limburgan: “Westerland”
- Low German: “Westerland”
- Luxembourgish: “Westerland”
- Macedonian: “Вестерланд”
- Malagasy: “Westerland”
- Malay: “Westerland”
- Minangkabau: “Westerland”
- Neapolitan: “Westerland”
- Northern Frisian: “Wäästerlön‘”
- Northern Frisian: “Weesterlön‘”
- Northern Frisian: “Weesterlön’”
- Northern Frisian: “Weesterlön”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Westerland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Westerland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Westerland”
- Persian: “وسترلانت”
- Persian: “وسترلاند”
- Picard: “Westerland”
- Piemontese: “Westerland”
- Polish: “Westerland”
- Portuguese: “Westerland”
- Romanian: “Westerland”
- Romansh: “Westerland”
- Russian: “Вестерланд”
- Sardinian: “Westerland”
- Scots: “Westerland”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Westerland”
- Serbian: “Westerland”
- Serbian: “Вестерланд”
- Sicilian: “Westerland”
- Slovak: “Westerland”
- Slovenian: “Westerland, Nemčija”
- Slovenian: “Westerland”
- Spanish: “Westerland”
- Swahili: “Westerland”
- Swedish: “Westerland”
- Swiss German: “Westerland”
- Tatar: “Вестерланд”
- Thai: “เว็สเทอร์ลันท์”
- Turkish: “Westerland”
- Uzbek: “Westerland”
- Venetian: “Westerland”
- Vietnamese: “Westerland”
- Vlaams: “Westerland”
- Volapük: “Westerland”
- Walloon: “Westerland”
- Welsh: “Westerland”
- Wolof: “Westerland”
- Zulu: “Westerland”
- “Westerland”
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