Texel
Sign in to saveTexel (; Texels dialect: ) is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,846 in North Holland, Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. The island is situated north of Den Helder, northeast of Noorderhaaks, and southwest of Vlieland.
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Texel is a municipality and island located in the Netherlands with nearly 14,000 residents, making it the largest and most populated of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. Its significance lies in being a major population center within this island chain in the northern part of North Holland.
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- North end of the island with the Eierland Lighthouse in 2015
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- Highlighted position of Texel in a municipal map of North Holland
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- Location in North Holland
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Texel (; Texels dialect: ) is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,846 in North Holland, Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. The island is situated north of Den Helder, northeast of Noorderhaaks, and southwest of Vlieland.
== Name == The name Texel is Frisian, but because of historical sound-changes in Dutch, where all -x- sounds have been replaced with -s- sounds (compare for instance English fox, Frisian fokse, German Fuchs with Dutch vos), the name is typically pronounced Tessel in Dutch.