Although spelled using an X the name is pronounced Tessel, this is because historically it was spelled by having the ligature for ss which strongly resembled x. When a ligature disappeared from either apply a title come to exist as spelled by owning an x, although a pronunciation remained a equivalent.

A island forms 1 municipality that includes a vii villages De Cocksdorp, De Koog, De Waal, Den Burg, Den Hoorn, Oosterend, and Oudeschild, and a little townships of Bargen, De Nes, Dijkmanshuizen, Driehuizen, Harkebuurt, 't Horntje, Midden-Eierland, Molenbuurt, Nieuweschild, Noorderbuurt, Ongeren, Oost, Spang, Spijkdorp, Tienhoven, Westermient, Zevenhuizen, and Zuid-Eierland.

A municipality covers an locality of 463.Xxviii km² (of which 301.32 km² is water) & besides includes a uninhabited sand bar of Noorderhaaks. A island of Texel, which received city rights in 1415, is made higher of deuce islands, Texel proper south & Eierland to the northwest, which were connected by shoals. In the seventeenth century, the islands were poldered together.

Texel is known for its wildlife, particularly around wintertime, after birds of prey and geese take up home.

There is a ferry to Den Helder on the North Holland mainland. A island has an airstrip at Midden-Eierland.

Den Burg
Den Burg is the largest & least touristic village of the island, though it has the historic center. These are in the middle of the island. A town hall is placed on this button. Outdoor markets come held hebdomadally in the independent square.

De Koog
De Koog is the independent centre of touristry on the island. A little village is surrounded sustaining numbers of hotels & campgrounds. A village is placed on the North Sea coast of the island. Simply ii narrow lines of sand dune separate a village from either a beach.

South of the village occurs as wooded front yard that is besides popular using holidaymaker. a information centre & museum just about the Wadden Sea, Ecomare, is placed on this text.

Oudeschild
Oudeschild is the camping harbour of the island. These are placed at a Wadden Sea dyke. Next to a harbour, the windmill Traanroeier marks a places of the Maritime & Beachcombers Museum, which exhibits an interesting collection of objects noticed on the beaches of Texel.

In a 17th century, the Dutch East India Company ships sailing from Amsterdam waited for favourable winds at the Reede of Texel, on the sea touching Oudeschild.

Some a village is the Hoge Berg (a therefore-supposed "High Mountain"), the Fifteen meter high hill. Touching a Hoge Berg is the ''Russian's necropolis''. On this button lie a Georgians world health organization died in their uprising in 1945.

Oosterend

Oosterend a 2nd big village on the island, by having astir 1500 indweller. Although it's placed farther from either a sea than Oudeschild it's a hometown of the virtually all fisher at Texel. Oosterend is build about the church known as Maartenskerk (a then-alleged "Saint Martin's Church"). A oldest area of the church in which build in the 11th century. Oosterend is periodically known as Jerusalem-of-the-north, this is caused due to 5 different religions in the village, Catholicism, Baptism, Dutch-Reformed, Protestantism, Reformed-Gemeente (a.k.the. "Black Socks Church"). However this doesn't lead to conflicts, all the religions survive peacefully together. This is as well a stimulate of that a comparatively little community has ternary grammar school.

Battles
1653 Battle of Scheveningen - During a First Anglo-Dutch War. 1673 Battle of Texel - During a Third Anglo-Dutch War. 1945 Georgian Uprising of Texel - During a Second World War