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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 14,200 residents
- Description: municipality in Schleswig-Holstein state, Germany on the island of the same name
- Also known as: “01054168” and “Sylt (municipality)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sylt and Sylt Airport.
Sylt
Photo: Michael Gäbler, CC BY 3.0.
Sylt belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is one of the most popular holiday destinations in Germany. It is a narrow island with a 40-km white beach and dunes on the western side and opens to mudflats on the eastern side.
Sylt Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sylt Airport is an airport on the German island of Sylt, located in the municipality of the same name. It mostly features summer seasonal scheduled traffic to major German cities as well as general aviation and gliding.
Harhoog
Archaeological site
Photo: Michael Gäbler, CC BY 3.0.
The Harhoog is a dolmen, a rectangular megalithic tomb from the Funnelbeaker culture, located near Keitum on the island of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Discovered in 1925, it was moved to the present site in 1954 when a new airport was developed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westerland and Tinnum.
Westerland
Town
Photo: Toksave, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Westerland is situated 4 km northwest of Sylt.
Tinnum
Village
Photo: Marschmensch, Public domain.
Tinnum is a village on the North Sea island of Sylt in the district of Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Today, it is an Ortsteil of the Gemeinde Sylt.
Keitum
Village
Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Keitum is a village on the North Sea island of Sylt in the district of Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Today, it is an Ortsteil of the Gemeinde Sylt.
Sylt
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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: “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 (Gemeinde)”
- German: “Sylt”
- Greek: “Ζυλτ (δήμος)”
- Greek: “Ζυλτ”
- Hungarian: “Sylt”
- Icelandic: “Sylt”
- Ido: “Sylt”
- Indonesian: “Sylt”
- Interlingua: “Sylt”
- Interlingue: “Sylt”
- Irish: “Sylt”
- Italian: “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”
- Narom: “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”
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