Terschelling
Terschelling is one of the West Frisian Islands in the north of the Netherlands. Like most of the West Frisian Islands, Terschelling thrives on domestic tourism who usually stay several days to enjoy the quiet, rural island atmosphere, spend time on the beaches and take bike trips to see the nature.
- Island with about 4,870 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- …is also known as “Terschelling Municipality”
- Description: island and municipality in Friesland, the Netherlands
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wrakkenmuseum and Janskerk Hoorn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Formerum and Hoorn.
Formerum
Village
Formerum is a village in the north of the Netherlands, on the island of Terschelling, Friesland.
Terschelling
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Latitude
53.4° or 53° 24′ north
Longitude
5.35° or 5° 21′ east
Open location code
9F57C82X+2X
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Terschelling” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Terschelling”
- Albanian: “Terschelling”
- Arabic: “تيرشخيلينج”
- Aragonese: “Skylge”
- Armenian: “Թերշխելինգ”
- Armenian: “Թերսխելինգ”
- Asturian: “Terschelling”
- Basque: “Terschelling”
- Belarusian: “Тэрсхелінг”
- Belarusian: “Тэрсхэлінг”
- Breton: “Skylge”
- Breton: “Terschelling”
- Catalan: “Skylge”
- Catalan: “Terschelling”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Terschelling”
- Chinese: “泰尔斯海灵”
- Chinese: “泰尔斯海灵岛”
- Chinese: “泰爾斯海靈島”
- Danish: “Terschelling”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Terschelling”
- Dutch: “Schelling”
- Dutch: “Schylge”
- Dutch: “Skylge”
- Dutch: “Terschelling”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تيرشخيلينج”
- Esperanto: “Terschelling”
- Estonian: “Terschelling”
- Finnish: “Terschelling”
- French: “Terschelling”
- German: “Schylge”
- German: “Terschelling”
- Greek: “Τέρτσελινγκ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Terschelling”
- Hebrew: “טרסכלינג”
- Hungarian: “Terschelling”
- Indonesian: “Terschelling”
- Irish: “Terschelling”
- Italian: “Terschelling”
- Japanese: “テルスヘリング”
- Javanese: “Terschelling”
- Korean: “테르스헬링”
- Kurdish: “Terschelling”
- Ladin: “Terschelling”
- Latvian: “Teršelinga”
- Latvian: “Tershelinga”
- Limburgan: “Terschelling”
- Lithuanian: “Teršelingas”
- Low German: “Terschelling”
- Luxembourgish: “Terschelling”
- Macedonian: “Терсхелинг”
- Malay: “Terschelling”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Terschelling”
- Northern Frisian: “Skylge”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Terschelling”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skylge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Terschelling”
- Norwegian: “Terschelling”
- Persian: “ترسخلینگ”
- Polish: “Terschelling”
- Portuguese: “Skylge”
- Portuguese: “Terschelling”
- Romanian: “Terschelling”
- Russian: “Терсхеллинг”
- Saterfriesisch: “Skylge”
- Scots: “Terschelling”
- Slovenian: “Terschelling”
- Spanish: “Schylge”
- Spanish: “Skylge”
- Spanish: “Terschelling”
- Swedish: “Terschelling”
- Turkish: “Terschelling”
- Ukrainian: “Терсхеллінг”
- Urdu: “ٹیرسخیلنگ”
- Venetian: “Terschelling”
- Volapük: “Skylge”
- Volapük: “Terschelling”
- Waray (Philippines): “Terschelling”
- Western Frisian: “Gemeente Skylge”
- Western Frisian: “Skylge”
- Zeeuws: “Terschellienge”
- Zeeuws: “Terschelling”
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