Tórshavn Municipality
Tórshavn Municipality is a municipality in the Danish territory of Faroe Islands. It encompasses the capital city of Tórshavn and its surrounding areas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Faroe Islands with 19,300 residents
- Description: municipality of the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Kalbak”, “Torshavn”, “Tórshavn”, “Tórshavnar”, and “Tórshavnar Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Library of the Faroe Islands and Tórsvøllur.
National Library of the Faroe Islands
Library
Photo: Maciej Brencz, CC BY 2.0.
The National Library of the Faroe Islands is the national library for the Faroe Islands, a self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark. It is both a public and a research library.
Tórsvøllur
Pitch
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tórsvøllur is a football stadium on the sport site of Gundadalur in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. The stadium holds 6,500 people, and was built in 1999 to become the country's national stadium to provide an artificial grass surface on which international football matches could be played.
Nordic House in the Faroe Islands
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5 dk.
The Nordic House is a cultural institution in the Faroe Islands. Its aim is to support and promote Nordic and Faroese culture, locally and in the Nordic region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tórshavn and Hoyvík.
Tórshavn
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tórshavn is the capital of the Faroe Islands. At the foot of a mountain range, the archipelago's largest city has a long history dating back as far as 850 AD.
Hoyvík
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tórshavn is the capital of the Faroe Islands. At the foot of a mountain range, the archipelago's largest city has a long history dating back as far as 850 AD.
Argir
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Argir is a village in the Faroe Islands. Argir most likely takes its name from Old Irish airge, which means summer pasture; several placenames in Faroe carry the same name with this meaning.
Tórshavn Municipality
- Location: Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Tórshavn Municipality” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Торсхаўн”
- Catalan: “Tórshavn”
- Chinese: “托尔斯港市镇”
- Chinese: “托爾斯港市鎮”
- Czech: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Danish: “Thorshavn Kommune”
- Danish: “Torshavn Kommune”
- Danish: “Tórshavn Kommune”
- Danish: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Dutch: “Torshavnar kommuna”
- Dutch: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Faroese: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Finnish: “Tórshavn (kunta)”
- Finnish: “Tórshavn”
- French: “Tórshavn”
- French: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Galician: “concello de Tórshavn”
- German: “Kommune Torshavn”
- German: “Kommune Tórshavn”
- German: “Torshavnar kommuna”
- German: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Greek: “Δήμος του Τόρσχαβν”
- Hungarian: “Tórshavn község”
- Icelandic: “Sveitarfélagið Þórshöfn”
- Inari Sami: “Tórshavn”
- Lithuanian: “Torshauno savivaldybė”
- Manx: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Northern Frisian: “Komuun Tórshavn”
- Northern Frisian: “Tórshavn”
- Northern Sami: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thorshavn Kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tórshavn kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tórshavnar Kommuna”
- Norwegian: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þunreshæfnes Burgscipe”
- Ossetian: “Торсхавн”
- Ossetian: “Торсхавны коммунæ”
- Persian: “تورشاونار، دانمارک”
- Polish: “Gmina Tórshavn”
- Polish: “Thorshavn”
- Polish: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Romanian: “Tórshavn”
- Russian: “Коммуна Торсхавн”
- Russian: “Торсхавн (коммуна)”
- Russian: “Торсхавн”
- Russian: “Торсхавнар”
- Swedish: “Torshamns kommun”
- Swedish: “Torshavnar kommuna”
- Swedish: “Tórshavnar kommuna”
- Swedish: “Tórshavns kommun”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Tórshavn”
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