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Westerland

town on the island of Sylt
Place town Q27998

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, Ortsteil, coastal spa[3][4]
Official website
www.stadt-westerland.de[11]
Native label
Westerland[15]
Official name
Westerland[14]

Location

Country
Germany[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 54.910°, 8.307°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Sylt[1]
Located in/on physical feature
Sylt[10]

Population and size

Area
+10.45[18]
Elevation above sea level
+5[17]
Population
+9032[12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 9,032 GeoNames 12,500 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
04651[9]
Postal code
25980[8]
More facts +5
Capital of
Sylt[13]
Different from
Westerland[16]
Head of government
Traugott Carl Otto Freiherr von Heintze
Official language
German, North Frisian[5][6]
Twinned administrative body
St. Moritz[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Westerland da Vesterland el Βέστερλαντ fa وسترلاند he וסטרלנד ja ヴェステルラント ja ヴェスターラント ja ヴェスターランド ja ヴェスターラント (ドイツ) ja ヴェスターラント（ドイツ） pl Weesterloen pl Vesterland pl Wäästerlön pl Waeaesterloen pl Weesterlön ru Westerland ru Вестерланд th เว็สเทอร์ลันท์ tr Vesterland tr Wäästerlön
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
129000463
Library of Congress authority ID
n80038373
GND ID
4065764-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Westerland Beach.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
7245
CERL Thesaurus ID
cnl00030442
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--4351212
Facebook location ID
104088296294287
FactGrid item ID
Big Lake
Freebase ID
/m/0cn004
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1886793
GeoNames ID
2810284
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Hikr waypoint ID
44440
Museum-digital place ID
17751
NL CR AUT ID
ge338960
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564224105171
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2810284
UN/LOCODE
DEGWT
WOEID
705805
Who's on First ID
101838187
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
14081670
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmtxY87gdjxQ7B6Ry6qcP
Yale LUX ID
place/68bece60-97e1-4054-b549-20002474241c

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🔗 Connections
People who died here 7
Heinz Reinefarth, Emil Jakob Schindler, Willy Düskow, Albert Heine, Ernst Bauer, Erwin Linder, Uwe Dallmeier
People born here 3
Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius, Christian Peter Hansen, Jap Peter Hansen
Instance of 2
town, Ortsteil
Official language 2
German, North Frisian
← Capital 2
Sylt, Sylt
Capital of 1
Sylt
Country 1
Germany
Different from 1
Westerland
FactGrid item ID 1
Big Lake
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Sylt
Located in this place 1
St. Niels
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Located in/on physical feature 1
Sylt
Named after 1
Westerland station
Twinned administrative body 1
St. Moritz
← Twinned administrative body 1
St. Moritz
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Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Westerland include Westerland station[19], a dead-end railway station[20], in Germany[21].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Westerland include Westerland station[19], a dead-end railway station[20], in Germany[21].

Related Entities

Germany Sylt

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. 18w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Germany
    Dewey Decimal Classification → 2--4351212
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Sylt
    Coordinates → —
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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