Winkel
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Winkel may refer to:
- Winkel, Haut-RhinWinkel, Haut-RhinWinkel is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.The village is known in Alsace as the Ill river takes its source. Its inhabitants are called Winkelois and Winkeloises.-References:*...
, a place in the Haut-Rhin department, France - Winkel (North Holland), a town in the Netherlands
- Winkel (Haaren), a village in the Netherlands
- Winkel (Cranendonck), a village in the Netherlands
- Winkel, SwitzerlandWinkel, SwitzerlandWinkel is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.-Geography:Winkel has an area of . Of this area, 45.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 27.5% is forested...
, a village in the canton of Zurich - Winkel, part of the municipality Oestrich-WinkelOestrich-WinkelOestrich-Winkel is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.- Location :This is a young town with roughly 12,000 inhabitants, having come into being in 1972 through the merger of the self-governing communities of Mittelheim, Oestrich and Winkel;...
in Rheingau, Hesse, Germany - Winkel, Rhineland-PalatinateWinkel, Rhineland-PalatinateWinkel is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - Winkel, Saxony-AnhaltWinkel, Saxony-AnhaltWinkel is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 September 2010, it is part of the town Allstedt....
, a municipality in Saxony Anhalt, Germany - Winkel, several places in Austria
- Winkel, Dutch, German, Afrikaans, and Yiddish for "shop"
- Winkel, the color and letter coded patch used by Nazis to classify prisoners in Concentration Camps
- Winkel Tripel projectionWinkel tripel projectionThe Winkel Tripel projection , a modified azimuthal map projection, is one of three projections proposed by Oswald Winkel in 1921...
a map projection adopted by the National Geographic Society in 1998