Toftir
Toftir is a village in Nes Municipality on the island of Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands. It is part of a chain of villages stretching over a distance of 10 kilometers on the east side of Skálafjørður on Eysturoy island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fríðrikskirkjan and Lake Toftir.
Lake Toftir
Lake
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Toftir is a lake on the island of Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands. Lake Toftir is located between the villages of Toftir and Rituvík. It is the fourth-largest natural lake in the Faroe Islands and it measures 51 hectares.
Svangaskarð
Pitch
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Svangaskarð, also referred to as Tofta Leikvøllur, is a multi-purpose stadium in Toftir, Faroe Islands with two football fields and a sports arena for athletics around the lower field.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nes and Saltnes.
Nes
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nes is a village in Nes Municipality on the southwest coast of the Faroese island of Eysturoy.
Saltnes
Village
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Saltnes is a village on the island of Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, in Nes Municipality. The population was 152 in August 2022.
Runavík
Village
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Runavík is a comparatively urbanised village in Runavík Municipality, Faroe Islands. It lies on the south half of the isle of Eysturoy.
Toftir
- Type: Village with 1,040 residents
- Description: settlement on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nes, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.09097° or 62° 5′ 28″ northLongitude
-6.73224° or 6° 43′ 56″ westPopulation
1,040Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)United Nations Location Code
FO TOFOpen location code
9CJM37R9+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 29023818OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Toftir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توفتير”
- Catalan: “Toftir”
- Chinese: “托夫蒂尔”
- Czech: “Toftir”
- Danish: “Tofte”
- Danish: “Toftir”
- Dutch: “Toftir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توفتير”
- Faroese: “Toftir”
- Finnish: “Toftir”
- French: “Toftir”
- German: “Toftir”
- Greek: “Τόφτιρ”
- Hungarian: “Toftir”
- Icelandic: “Toftir”
- Indonesian: “Toftir”
- Irish: “Toftir”
- Italian: “Toftir”
- Japanese: “トフティル”
- Korean: “토프티르”
- Lithuanian: “Toftiras”
- Manx: “Toftir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Toftir”
- Norwegian: “Toftir”
- Polish: “Toftir”
- Romanian: “Toftir”
- Russian: “Тофтир”
- Slovak: “Toftir”
- Spanish: “Toftir”
- Swedish: “Toftir”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Toftir”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.