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: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Jerreantwerp, Public domain.
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 13,700 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Neighbors: Den Helder and Vlieland
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Texel International Airport
Photo: JePe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Texel International Airport is a small airport located 3.5 NM north northeast of Den Burg on the island of Texel in the north of the Netherlands.
Localities in the Area
De Koog
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
De Koog is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Oosterend
Photo: Jcb, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Oosterend is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Texel
- Categories: island and place with town rights and privileges
- Location: North Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.0788° or 53° 4' 44" northLongitude
4.8117° or 4° 48' 42" eastPopulation
13,700Elevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL TEXGeoNames ID
2746383Wikidata ID
Q9966Texel Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Texel
- Albanian: Texel
- Arabic: Texel
- Arabic: تيسل
- Aragonese: Texel
- Armenian: Թեսել
- Asturian: Texel
- Azerbaijani: Teksel
- Basque: Texel
- Breton: Texel
- Catalan: Texel
- Cebuano: Gemeente Texel
- Chinese: Texel
- Chinese: 泰瑟尔
- Chinese: 泰瑟爾
- Chinese: 特塞尔
- Czech: Texel (Nizozemsko : ostrov)
- Czech: Texel
- Danish: Texel
- Dutch: Gemeente Texel
- Dutch: Tessel
- Dutch: Texel (gemeente)
- Dutch: Texel
- Dutch: gemeente Texel
- Egyptian Arabic: تيسل
- English: Texel (Nizozemsko : ostrov)
- English: Texel Island
- English: Texel Municipality
- Esperanto: Texel
- Estonian: Texel
- Finnish: Texel
- French: Texel
- Galician: Texel, Países Baixos
- Galician: Texel
- Georgian: ტექსელი
- German: Kabeltex
- German: Texel
- German: Texel (Nizozemsko : ostrov)
- Hebrew: טסל
- Hungarian: Texel
- Icelandic: Texel
- Ido: Texel
- Indonesian: Teksel
- Irish: Texel
- Italian: Texel
- Japanese: テセル
- Javanese: Texel
- Korean: 텍셀
- Kurdish: Texel
- Limburgan: Texel
- Lithuanian: Tekselis
- Low German: Tessel
- Luxembourgish: Texel
- Macedonian: Тексел
- Malay: Texel
- Min Nan Chinese: Texel
- Northern Frisian: Texel
- Norwegian: Texel
- Norwegian Bokmål: Texel
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Texel
- Occitan (post 1500): Texel
- 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
Other Places Named Texel
In the Area
- De WaalVillage
- SpangHamlet
- SpijkdorpHamlet
- De NesHamlet
- HarkebuurtHamlet
- Zuid-EierlandHamlet
Popular Destinations in North Holland
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Texel. Photo: Jerreantwerp, Public domain.