Sylt
Sylt is a municipality on the island of Sylt in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It has around 13,000 inhabitants and covers about 60% of the area of the island.
- Type: Municipality with 14,200 residents
- Description: municipality in Schleswig-Holstein state, Germany on the island of the same name
- Also known as: “01054168” and “Sylt (Gemeinde)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sylt and Sylt Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westerland and Tinnum.
Tinnum
Village
Photo: Marschmensch, Public domain.
Sylt
- Categories: municipality without town privileges in Germany and locality
- Location: Kreis Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
54.8879° or 54° 53′ 17″ north
Longitude
8.359° or 8° 21′ 32″ east
Population
14,200
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
9F6CV9Q5+5H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipality
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sylt” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sylt”
- Aragonese: “Sylt”
- Arpitan: “Sylt”
- Asturian: “Sylt”
- Basque: “Sylt”
- Bavarian: “Sylt”
- Belarusian: “Зільт”
- Breton: “Sylt”
- Catalan: “Sylt”
- Cebuano: “Sylt”
- Chinese: “叙尔特”
- Chinese: “敘爾特”
- Chinese: “西尔特”
- Corsican: “Sylt”
- Croatian: “Sylt”
- Czech: “Sylt”
- Danish: “Sild Kommune”
- Dutch: “Sylt”
- Esperanto: “Sylt”
- Estonian: “Sylt”
- Finnish: “Sylt”
- French: “Sylt”
- Friulian: “Sylt”
- Galician: “Sylt”
- German: “Sylt”
- Greek: “Ζυλτ (δήμος)”
- Greek: “Ζυλτ”
- Hungarian: “Sylt”
- Icelandic: “Sylt”
- Ido: “Sylt”
- Indonesian: “Sylt”
- Interlingua: “Sylt”
- Interlingue: “Sylt”
- Irish: “Sylt”
- Italian: “Sylt”
- Jèrriais: “Sylt”
- Kongo: “Sylt”
- Ladin: “Sylt municipality”
- Ladin: “Sylt”
- Ligurian: “Sylt”
- Limburgan: “Sylt”
- Lithuanian: “Zyltas”
- Low German: “Sylt”
- Luxembourgish: “Sylt”
- Macedonian: “Зилт”
- Malagasy: “Sylt”
- Malay: “Sylt”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sylt (municipality)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sylt”
- Minangkabau: “Sylt”
- Neapolitan: “Sylt”
- Northern Frisian: “Söl‘”
- Northern Frisian: “Söl’”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sylt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sylt”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sylt”
- Persian: “زیلت (مونیکیپالیتی)”
- Persian: “زیلت”
- Picard: “Sylt”
- Piemontese: “Sylt”
- Polish: “Sylt”
- Portuguese: “Sylt”
- Romanian: “Sylt”
- Romansh: “Sylt”
- Russian: “Зильт”
- Sardinian: “Sylt”
- Scots: “Sylt”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sylt”
- Serbian: “Sylt”
- Serbian: “Зилт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sylt”
- Sicilian: “Sylt”
- Slovak: “Sylt”
- Slovenian: “Sylt”
- Spanish: “Sylt”
- Swahili: “Sylt”
- Swedish: “Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein”
- Swedish: “Sylt”
- Swiss German: “Sylt”
- Turkish: “Sylt”
- Ukrainian: “Зильт”
- Ukrainian: “Зюльт”
- Venetian: “Sylt”
- Vietnamese: “Sylt, Nordfriesland”
- Vietnamese: “Sylt”
- Vlaams: “Sylt”
- Volapük: “Sylt”
- Walloon: “Sylt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sylt”
- Welsh: “Sylt”
- Western Frisian: “Sylt”
- Wolof: “Sylt”
- Zulu: “Sylt”
- “Sylt”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Grünes Kliff and Klentertal.
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Highlights: Georgs Galerie and Keitum.
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