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Sylt-Ost (, "East Sylt"; ) is a former municipality on the island of Sylt, in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It used to be the administrative seat of the Amt Landschaft Sylt and a municipality into which a number of villages had been amalgamated in 1970. However, following a referendum in May 2008, Sylt-Ost merged with Westerland and Rantum to form the collective municipality Gemeinde Sylt which was created on 1 January 2009. Since 2009, the seat of the Amt Landschaft Sylt has been in Westerland.

Key facts

German location.type
Municipality
German location.image_photo
2003-08 Sylt - Church of Keitum.jpg
German location.image_caption
St. Severin in Keitum
German location.image_coa
Sylt-Ost Wappen.png
German location.image_plan
Sylt-Ost in NF.PNG
German location.plantext
Location of Sylt-Ost within the Nordfriesland district
German location.state
Schleswig-Holstein
German location.district
Nordfriesland
German location.elevation
1
German location.area
37.97
German location.population
5833
German location.Stand
2007-12-31
German location.postal_code
25980
German location.area_code
04651
German location.licence
NF
German location.website
www.gemeinde-sylt.de
German location.dissolved
1 January 2009
German location._noautocat
yes

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Sylt-Ost
Population
5833
Area
37.97
Elevation
1
Image
2003-08 Sylt - Church of Keitum.jpg
Dialing code
04651
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postal code
25980
native label
Sylt-Ost
Commons category
Sylt-Ost
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Sylt-Ost (, "East Sylt"; ) is a former municipality on the island of Sylt, in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It used to be the administrative seat of the Amt Landschaft Sylt and a municipality into which a number of villages had been amalgamated in 1970. However, following a referendum in May 2008, Sylt-Ost merged with Westerland and Rantum to form the collective municipality Gemeinde Sylt which was created on 1 January 2009. Since 2009, the seat of the Amt Landschaft Sylt has been in Westerland.

==Subdivision== The former municipality "Sylt-Ost" was created from five villages in 1970: Archsum Keitum Morsum Munkmarsch (previously an Ortsteil of Keitum) Tinnum

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