Sylt (; ; Söl ' ring North Frisian: Söl ' ) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, and well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline.

Concerning land mammals, there is no significant deviation from the neighbouring areas of mainland Nordfriesland.

Nordfriesland, English " Northern Friesland " or " North Frisia ", is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

The district is called Kreis Nordfriesland in German, Kreis Noordfreesland in Low German, Kris Nordfraschlönj in Mooring North Frisian, Kreis Nuurdfresklun in Fering North Frisian and Nordfrislands amt in Danish.

In medieval times storm tides made life in what is now Nordfriesland quite dangerous.

From approximately 1200 until 1864, the area that is now Nordfriesland was a part of the Duchy of Schleswig, which itself was not directly a part of the Danish Kingdom, but a fiefdom of the Danish crown and linked to the kings of Denmark by personal union as a separate entity.

The North Frisian language exists in nine slightly different dialects, yet it is mainly used by older persons in mainland Nordfriesland.

Husum ( North Frisian: Hüsem ) is the capital of the Kreis ( district ) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

It is bounded by ( from the north and clockwise ) the districts of Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Flensburg, Rendsburg-Eckernförde, and Steinburg, by the state of Lower Saxony ( district of Stade, from which it is separated by the Elbe river ), and by the North Sea.

It is bounded by ( from the south and clockwise ) the districts of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Dithmarschen and Nordfriesland, the Region Syddanmark in Denmark, the city of Flensburg and the Baltic Sea.

The North Sea island of Heligoland, while not part of Nordfriesland district, is also part of traditional North Frisia.

It is part of the Nordfriesland district in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.

It is part of the Nordfriesland district in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.

It is one of three isles with a geestland core in Nordfriesland.

Due to the isolated location of the islands the North Frisian dialects developed so differently, that Öömrang can be understood by people from Föhr, yet is hardly recognisable for those from Sylt or mainland Nordfriesland.

It is part of the Nordfriesland district in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.

It is part of the Nordfriesland district in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Achtrup (; North Frisian: Åktoorp ) is a municipality in Nordfriesland district, in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

Ahrenshöft ( North Frisian: Oornshaud ; ) is a municipality in Nordfriesland district, in northern Germany.

Ahrenviöl (, North Frisian: Årnfjål ) is a municipality in Nordfriesland district, in northern Germany.

Ahrenviölfeld () is a municipality in Nordfriesland district, in northern Germany.

Alkersum ( Fering: Aalkersem, ) is a municipality in the Nordfriesland district, in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.

Dagebüll ( Mooring North Frisian: Doogebel ; ) is a municipality located at the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein in the Nordfriesland district, Germany.

It does not however form an administrative entity, but consists of the districts ( Landkreise ) of Schleswig-Flensburg, Nordfriesland, the urban district ( Kreisfreie Stadt ) of Flensburg and the northern part of Rendsburg-Eckernförde.

As of 2008, Nordfriesland was the most visited rural district in Germany.

In 1970 these three districts were merged to form the Nordfriesland district.

The German islands are in the traditional region of North Frisia and are part of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park and the Kreis ( district ) of Nordfriesland.

#* Nordfriesland district, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

The portions of North Frisia within the German state of Schleswig-Holstein are part of the district of Nordfriesland and stretch along the coast, including the coastal islands from the Eider River to the border of Denmark in the north.

Although culturally closer to North Frisia in the German district of Nordfriesland, the two islands are part of the district of Pinneberg in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Until 1972, Amrum belonged to the Südtondern district which then merged into the newly created district of Nordfriesland.

Several thousand people in Nordfriesland and Heligoland in Germany speak a collection of North Frisian dialects that are often unintelligible to each other.

The Halligen ( singular Hallig ) are ten small German islands without protective dikes in the North Frisian Islands on Schleswig-Holstein's Wadden Sea-North Sea coast in the district of Nordfriesland.

Category: people from Nordfriesland

# North Frisia or Northern Friesland ( German Nordfriesland ; Danish: Nordfrisland ) including areas in

Tönning ( German ; Danish: Tønning ; North Frisian: Taning ) is a town in the district of Nordfriesland in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Eiderstedt (; ; North Frisian: Ääderstää ) is a peninsula in the district of Nordfriesland in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.

* Changing coastline of Nordfriesland ( Page in German ).

Ferdinand Tönnies was born into a wealthy farmer's family in North Frisia, Schleswig ( today Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein ), then under Danish rule.

It is primarily played along the coast and borders of North Germany, such as in Ostfriesland, Oldenburg, Butjadingen, Dithmarschen, Nordfriesland, Emsland, and Grafschaft Bentheim.

Rungholt was a wealthy city in Nordfriesland, northern Germany.

* January 16 – The " Grote Mandrenke " storm tide strikes the Netherlands, England, Germany and Denmark, destroying the city of Rungholt in Nordfriesland, Germany.

Nordfriesland includes the coastal section between Dithmarschen and Denmark.

* The Schifffahrtsmuseum Nordfriesland ( Zingel 15 ) shows ships from the Middle Ages to the present.

To the north it borders on Nordfriesland and Schleswig-Flensburg, to the east on Rendsburg-Eckernförde, and in the southeast on Steinburg.

The first of these new Knickebein (" knock-knee " or " crooked leg ") transmitters were set up in 1939 on the Stollberg hill in Nordfriesland near the border with Denmark, at Kleve ( Cleves ) near the Dutch border, almost the most westerly point in Germany and at Lörrach near the border with France and Switzerland in south-western Germany.