Sylt
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Michael Gäbler, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sylt Airport and Westerland station.
Sylt Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sylt Airport is the 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.
Westerland station
Railway station
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Westerland station is a terminus railway station in the town of Westerland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The station lies on the Marsh Railway and the train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn and Nord-Ostsee-Bahn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westerland and Wenningstedt-Braderup.
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.
Wenningstedt-Braderup
Village
Photo: Magnus Manske, CC BY 1.0.
Wenningstedt-Braderup is a municipality and seaside resort on the island of Sylt in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is located north of the town of Westerland and is part of the Amt Landschaft 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.
Sylt
- Type: Island
- Description: German island in the North Sea
- Category: landform
- Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sylt” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sylt”
- Arabic: “زولت”
- Arabic: “سيلت”
- Aragonese: “Sylt”
- Armenian: “Զիլտ”
- Arpitan: “Sylt”
- Asturian: “Sylt”
- Basque: “Sylt”
- Bavarian: “Sylt”
- Breton: “Sylt”
- Bulgarian: “Зилт”
- Bulgarian: “Зюлт”
- Catalan: “Sylt”
- Cebuano: “Sylt”
- Chinese: “叙尔特岛”
- Chinese: “敘爾特島”
- Corsican: “Sylt”
- Croatian: “Sylt”
- Czech: “Sylt”
- Danish: “Sild”
- Danish: “Sylt”
- Dutch: “Sylt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيلت”
- Esperanto: “Sylt”
- Estonian: “Sylt”
- Finnish: “Sylt”
- French: “Sylt”
- Friulian: “Sylt”
- Galician: “Sylt”
- Georgian: “ზილტი”
- German: “Sylt”
- Greek: “Ζυλτ”
- Greek: “Συλτ”
- Hebrew: “זילט”
- Hungarian: “Sylt”
- Icelandic: “Sylt”
- Ido: “Sylt”
- Indonesian: “Sylt”
- Interlingua: “Sylt”
- Interlingue: “Sylt”
- Irish: “Sylt”
- Italian: “Sylt”
- Japanese: “ジルト島”
- Japanese: “ズィルト”
- Japanese: “ズィルト島”
- Japanese: “ズュルト”
- Japanese: “ズリュト”
- Kölsch: “Sylt”
- Kongo: “Sylt”
- Korean: “질트섬”
- Latvian: “Zilte”
- Ligurian: “Sylt”
- Limburgan: “Sylt”
- Lithuanian: “Ziltas”
- Lithuanian: “Ziultas”
- Low German: “Sylt”
- Lower Sorbian: “Sylt”
- Luxembourgish: “Sylt”
- Macedonian: “Зилт”
- Malagasy: “Sylt”
- Malay: “Sylt”
- Minangkabau: “Sylt”
- Mingrelian: “ზილტი”
- Narom: “Sylt”
- Neapolitan: “Sylt”
- Northern Frisian: “Söl‘”
- Northern Frisian: “Söl’”
- Northern Frisian: “Söl”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sild”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sylt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sylt”
- Norwegian: “Sylt”
- Novial: “Sylt”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sylt”
- Persian: “زیلت”
- Picard: “Sylt”
- Piemontese: “Sylt”
- Polish: “Sylt”
- Portuguese: “Sylt”
- Romanian: “Sylt”
- Romansh: “Sylt”
- Russian: “Зильт”
- Sardinian: “Sylt”
- Saterfriesisch: “Sylt”
- Scots: “Sylt”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sylt”
- Serbian: “Sylt”
- Serbian: “Зилт (острво)”
- Serbian: “Зилт”
- Sicilian: “Sylt”
- Slovak: “Sylt”
- Slovenian: “Sylt”
- Spanish: “Sylt”
- Swahili: “Sylt”
- Swedish: “Sylt”
- Swiss German: “Sylt”
- Thai: “เกาะซึลท์”
- Ukrainian: “Зюльт”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sylt”
- Venetian: “Sylt”
- Vietnamese: “Sylt”
- Vlaams: “Sylt”
- Volapük: “Sylt”
- Walloon: “Sylt”
- Welsh: “Sylt”
- Western Frisian: “Söl”
- Western Panjabi: “سلٹ”
- Wolof: “Sylt”
- Wu Chinese: “叙尔特岛”
- Zulu: “Sylt”
- “Sylt”
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