Ísafjörður

Ísafjörður is a town in the northwest of . The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or eyri, in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord which meets the waters of the larger fjord .
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  • Type: Town with 2,810 residents
  • Description: town in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Isafiordr”, “Ísafjardardjup”, “Isafjoerdur”, “Isafjordur”, and “Issafjörður”
  • Postal codes: 400 and 401

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ísafjörður Airport and Ísafjarðarkirkja.

Aerodrome
Photo: Sturlast, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an airport serving Ísafjörður, a town in the region in northwestern .

Church
Photo: Banja-Frans Mulder, CC BY 3.0.
is a church.

Pitch
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, known as Kerecisvöllurinn for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Ísafjörður, and the home of Vestri and Knattspyrnufélagið Hörður. It broke ground in 1963 and was opened on 18 July 1964.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hnífsdalur.

Village
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is a small village in the municipality of , located between and Ísafjörður. The literal meaning of the name is "Knife's Valley". is situated 4 km north of Ísafjörður.

Ísafjörður

Latitude
66.0727° or 66° 4′ 22″ north
Longitude
-23.1194° or 23° 7′ 10″ west
Population
2,810
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
IFJ
United Nations Location Code
IS ISA
Open location code
99RR3VFJ+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60741085
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3415667
Wiki­data ID
Q106896
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Ísafjörður” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ísafjörður”
  • Arabic: “اسافيوردور”
  • Armenian: “Իսաֆյորդուր”
  • Asturian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsafyordür”
  • Basque: “Ísafjörður”
  • Belarusian: “Ісаф’ёрдзюр”
  • Belarusian: “Ісаф’ёрдур”
  • Belarusian: “Ісафіёрдур”
  • Bengali: “ইসাফিয়র্ডুর”
  • Catalan: “Ísafjörður”
  • Cebuano: “Ísafjörður (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Ísafjörður”
  • Chechen: “Исафьордюр”
  • Chinese: “伊萨菲厄泽”
  • Chinese: “伊薩菲厄澤”
  • Croatian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Czech: “Ísafjörður”
  • Danish: “Isafjord”
  • Danish: “Ísafjörður”
  • Dutch: “Isafjordhur”
  • Dutch: “Ísafjördhur”
  • Dutch: “Isafjordur”
  • Dutch: “Ísafjörður”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسافيوردور”
  • Esperanto: “Isafjorður”
  • Esperanto: “Ísafjörður”
  • Estonian: “Isafjord”
  • Estonian: “Isafjördhur”
  • Estonian: “Isafjördur”
  • Estonian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Finnish: “Isafjördur”
  • Finnish: “Ísafjörður”
  • Finnish: “Isafjörour”
  • Finnish: “Isafjöröur”
  • French: “Isafiordur”
  • French: “Isafjordur”
  • French: “Isafjördur”
  • French: “Ísafjörður”
  • Georgian: “ისაფიორდური”
  • Georgian: “ისაფორდური”
  • German: “Isafjördur”
  • German: “Ísafjörður”
  • Greek: “Ισαφιορδούρ”
  • Greek: “Ίσαφιορδουρ”
  • Hebrew: “איסאפיירד’ור”
  • Hebrew: “איסאפיירדור”
  • Hungarian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Icelandic: “Eyri í Skutulsfirði”
  • Icelandic: “Ísafirði”
  • Icelandic: “Ísafjarðar”
  • Icelandic: “Ísafjarðarkaupstaður”
  • Icelandic: “Ísafjörð”
  • Icelandic: “Ísafjörður við Skutulsfjörð”
  • Icelandic: “Ísafjörður”
  • Ido: “Ísafjörður”
  • Indonesian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Interlingue: “Ísafjörður”
  • Irish: “Ísafjörður”
  • Italian: “Isafjordur”
  • Italian: “Isafjördur”
  • Italian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Japanese: “Ísafjörður”
  • Japanese: “イーサフィエルズル”
  • Japanese: “イーサフィヨルズゥル”
  • Japanese: “イーサフィヨルズル”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ísafjörður”
  • Kazakh: “Ïsafʹordyur”
  • Kazakh: “Исафьордюр”
  • Kazakh: “ىيسافورديۋر”
  • Korean: “이사피외르뒤르”
  • Latin: “Ísafjörður”
  • Lithuanian: “Isafjorduras”
  • Low German: “Ísafjörður”
  • Macedonian: “Исафјердир”
  • Malay: “Ísafjörður”
  • Mingrelian: “ისაფიორდური”
  • Moksha: “Исафьордур”
  • Mongolian: “Исафьордюр”
  • Nauru: “Ísafjörður‘”
  • Nauru: “Ísafjörður”
  • Nauru: “Isafyordur”
  • Northern Sami: “Ísafjörður”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isafjordur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ísafjörður”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isafjördur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isafjörður”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isafjørdur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isafjørður”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ísafjörður”
  • Norwegian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ísafjörður”
  • Ossetian: “Исафьёрдур”
  • Ossetian: “Исафьордюр”
  • Persian: “ایسافجرویر”
  • Polish: “Isafjordur”
  • Polish: “Ísafjörður”
  • Portuguese: “Ísafjördur”
  • Portuguese: “Ísafjörður”
  • Romanian: “Isafjordur”
  • Romanian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Russian: “Исафьердюр”
  • Russian: “Исафьёрдюр”
  • Russian: “Исафьордур”
  • Russian: “Исафьордюр”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ísafjörður”
  • Serbian: “Isafjerdir”
  • Serbian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Serbian: “Исавјердур”
  • Serbian: “Исафјердир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Slovenian: “Ísafjörður”
  • Spanish: “Isafjordur”
  • Spanish: “Isafjorður”
  • Spanish: “Isafjördur”
  • Spanish: “Isafjörður”
  • Spanish: “Ísafjordur”
  • Spanish: “Ísafjorður”
  • Spanish: “Ísafjördur”
  • Spanish: “Ísafjörður”
  • Swedish: “Isafjord”
  • Swedish: “Isafjördur”
  • Swedish: “Ísafjörður”
  • Turkish: “Ísafjörður”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісафіордюр”
  • Ukrainian: “Ісафьордюр”
  • Urdu: “ایسافیوردر”
  • Veps: “Isafjordür”
  • Vietnamese: “Ísafjörður”
  • Volapük: “Ísafjörður”
  • Welsh: “Ísafjörður”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊萨菲厄泽”

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