Sund
Sund is a small village in the Faroe Islands, located north of Tórshavn. It has the largest powerstation in the country. Currently, it has a population of only 1 person.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tnielsen1984, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1 residents
- Description: settlement on Streymoy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Sund, Faroe Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kaldbaks kirkja and Húsareyn.
Húsareyn
Peak
Húsareyn is a mountain located on the island of Streymoy, Faroe Islands. Standing at 345 metres above sea level, it is dwarfed by other Faroese mountains such as Slættaratindur. Húsareyn is situated 3 km southeast of Sund.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaldbak and Kaldbaksbotnur.
Kaldbak
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kaldbak is a village in the Faroe Islands, on Streymoy's east coast and part of Tórshavn Municipality. The village lies on the northern side of the fjord Kaldbaksfjørður.
Kaldbaksbotnur
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kaldbaksbotnur is a village on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. Kaldbaksbotnur is situated 3½ km northwest of Sund.
Norðradalur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Norðradalur is a village on the western coast of the Faroese island of Streymoy in Tórshavn Municipality. The 2015 population was 15. Its postal code is FO 178. Norðradalur is situated 4 km west of Sund.
Sund
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tórshavn Municipality, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.04935° or 62° 2′ 58″ northLongitude
-6.85008° or 6° 51′ 0″ westPopulation
1Elevation
129 metres (423 feet)Open location code
9CJM24XX+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023811OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2612123Wikidata ID
Q734190
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Sund” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Sund (Färöer)”
- Bavarian: “Sund”
- Catalan: “Sund”
- Danish: “Sund”
- Dutch: “Sund”
- Faroese: “Sund”
- German: “Sund”
- Hungarian: “Sund”
- Irish: “Sund”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sund”
- Norwegian: “Sund”
- Romanian: “Sund, Faroe Islands”
- Romanian: “Sund, Insulele Feroe”
- Spanish: “Sund”
- Swedish: “Sund, Färöarna”
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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 “Sund”. Photo: Tnielsen1984, CC BY-SA 4.0.