Texel

Also known as Texel (Nizozemsko : ostrov)

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.

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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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Key facts

Settlement.name: Texel
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality and island
Settlement.image_skyline: Texel island.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: North end of the island with the Eierland Lighthouse in 2015
Settlement.image_flag: Texel flag.svg
Settlement.flag_size: 100x80px
Settlement.image_shield: Texel wapen.svg
Settlement.shield_size: 100x80px
Settlement.image_map: Map - NL - Municipality code 0448 (2009).svg
Settlement.map_alt: Highlighted position of Texel in a municipal map of North Holland
Settlement.map_caption: Location in North Holland
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: North Holland
Settlement.governing_body: Municipal council
Settlement.leader_party: VVD
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor

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Name
History
Geography
Landscape
Climate
Notable people
Sport
Economy
Local government
Transport
See also
References
External links

== 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Texel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.