Landschaft Sylt is an '' Amt'' ("collective municipality") in the district of

Nordfriesland Nordfriesland (; ; Low German: Noordfreesland), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost Districts of Germany, district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the e ...

, in

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. It covers the island of

Sylt Sylt (; ; Söl'ring North Frisian: ) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, with a distinctively shaped shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Fris ...

(except the independent municipality

in the center of the island), in the

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, about 65 km northwest of

Husum Husum (, ) is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The town was the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet "the grey town by the sea". It is also the home of the annual i ...

. Its administrative seat is in the town Westerland - which is not, however, a part of the ''Amt''.

Subdivision

The ''Amt'' Landschaft Sylt consists of the following municipalities: # Hörnum # Kampen #

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# Wenningstedt-Braderup Note: The total number of inhabitants, under 4,500, is less than the minimum requirement for an independently administrated ''Amt'' (8,000 inhabitants). The administration of the ''Amt'' is thus shared with the '' Gemeinde Sylt''. Since 2009, the seat of the ''Amt'' has been located in the townhall of the ''Gemeinde Sylt'' in Westerland.

References

Ämter in Schleswig-Holstein Sylt Nordfriesland {{Nordfriesland-geo-stub