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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Jerreantwerp, Public domain.
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 13,700 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Texel (Nizozemsko : ostrov)” and “Texel Municipality”
- Neighbors: Den Helder and Vlieland
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waalenburg and Texel (Den Burg) Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Den Burg and De Koog.
Den Burg
Town
Photo: Paul van de Velde, CC BY 2.0.
Den Burg is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Texel on the island of the same name, and lies about 12 km north of Den Helder.
De Koog
Village
De Koog is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Texel, and lies about 17 km north of Den Helder. It is the chief centre of tourism on the island, surrounded with many hotels and campgrounds.
Oosterend
Village
Photo: Jcb, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Oosterend is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Texel, and lies about 17 km northeast of Den Helder.
Texel
- Category: place with town rights and privileges
- Location: North Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Texel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- Breton: “Texel”
- Catalan: “Texel”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Texel”
- Chinese: “Texel”
- Chinese: “泰瑟尔”
- Chinese: “泰瑟爾”
- Czech: “Texel (Nizozemsko : ostrov)”
- Czech: “Texel”
- Danish: “Texel”
- Dutch: “gemeente Texel”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Texel”
- Dutch: “Tessel”
- Dutch: “Texel (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Texel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تيسل”
- Esperanto: “Texel”
- Estonian: “Texel”
- Finnish: “Texel”
- French: “Texel”
- Galician: “Texel, Países Baixos”
- Galician: “Texel”
- Georgian: “ტექსელი”
- German: “Kabeltex”
- German: “Texel (Nizozemsko : ostrov)”
- 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: “텍셀”
- Kurdish: “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”
- 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”
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