Texel
Texel is an island in the West Frisian Islands region of the Netherlands. Tourists and birds are abundant. The tourists visit mostly in the summer. Texel is an island with four types of landscape: dunes and beaches in the west, flatland and polders in the east and hilly in the center of the island.
Photo: Jerreantwerp, Public domain.- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 13,700 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “gemeente Texel”, “Kabeltex”, “Texel (gemeente)”, “Texel (Nizozemsko : ostrov)”, and “Texel Municipality”
- Neighbors: Den Helder and Vlieland
Places of Interest
Highlights: Waalenburg and Texel (Den Burg) Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Den Burg and De Koog.
Texel
- Category: place with town rights and privileges
- Location: North Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.0788° or 53° 4′ 44″ north
Longitude
4.8117° or 4° 48′ 42″ east
Population
13,700
Elevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Texel” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Texel”
- Albanian: “Texel”
- Arabic: “تيسل”
- Aragonese: “Texel”
- Armenian: “Թեսել”
- Asturian: “Texel”
- Azerbaijani: “Teksel”
- Balinese: “Texel”
- Basque: “Texel”
- Belarusian: “Тэксел”
- Breton: “Texel”
- Catalan: “Texel”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Texel”
- Chinese: “泰瑟尔”
- Chinese: “泰瑟爾”
- Czech: “Texel”
- Danish: “Texel”
- Dutch: “Texel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تيسل”
- Esperanto: “Texel”
- Estonian: “Texel”
- Finnish: “Texel”
- French: “Texel”
- Galician: “Texel, Países Baixos”
- Galician: “Texel”
- Georgian: “ტექსელი”
- German: “Texel”
- Hebrew: “טסל”
- Hungarian: “Texel”
- Icelandic: “Texel”
- Ido: “Texel”
- Indonesian: “Teksel”
- Indonesian: “Texel”
- Irish: “Texel”
- Italian: “Texel”
- Japanese: “テセル”
- Javanese: “Texel”
- Korean: “텍설”
- Korean: “텍셀”
- Kurdish: “Texel”
- Ladin: “Texel”
- Latvian: “Teksela”
- Limburgan: “Texel”
- Lithuanian: “Tekselis”
- Low German: “Tessel”
- Luxembourgish: “Texel”
- Macedonian: “Тексел”
- Malagasy: “Texel”
- Malay: “Texel”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Texel”
- Northern Frisian: “Texel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Texel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Texel”
- Norwegian: “Texel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Texel”
- Ossetian: “Тексел (сакъадах)”
- Ossetian: “Тексел”
- Persian: “تسل”
- Polish: “Texel”
- Portuguese: “Texel”
- Romanian: “Texel”
- Russian: “Остров Тексел”
- Russian: “Тексел”
- Saterfriesisch: “Tessel”
- Scots: “Texel”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Texel”
- Slovenian: “Texel”
- Spanish: “Texel”
- Swedish: “Texel”
- Thai: “เทกเซล”
- Turkish: “Texel”
- Ukrainian: “Тесел”
- Urdu: “ٹیکسل”
- Venetian: “Texel”
- Vietnamese: “Texel”
- Vlaams: “Texel”
- Volapük: “Texel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Texel”
- Western Frisian: “Teksel”
- Western Frisian: “Tessel”
- Wolof: “Texel”
- Wu Chinese: “泰瑟尔”
- Zeeuws: “Texel”
- “Texel”
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