Sandavágur
Sandavágur is a town on the south coast of the Faroese island of Vágar. The name Sandavágur means sandy bay and refers to the sandy beach which used to be much larger than present.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,030 residents
- Description: settlement on Vágar, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Sadevaag”, “Sandavagur”, and “Sandevaag”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Sandavágur and Miðvágs kirkja.
Church of Sandavágur
Church
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandavágur Church is a distinctive red-roofed church in the town of Sandavágur in the Faroe Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Miðvágur and Vatnsoyrar.
Miðvágur
Village
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Miðvágur, is a village in the Faroe Islands on Vágar. It has been a municipality until 1 January 2009 when it fused with Sandavágur into Vága kommuna. Located on the south coast of the island of Vágar, Miðvágur is the largest town on this Faroese island.
Vatnsoyrar
Village
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Vatnsoyrar is a village founded in 1921 in the middle of the Faroese island of Vagar. Vatnsoyrar, being created in 1921, is one of the youngest settlements in the Faroes. Vatnsoyrar is situated 6 km northwest of Sandavágur.
Kvívík
Village
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Kvívík is a village and municipality on the west coast of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. Kvívík is situated 8 km northeast of Sandavágur.
Sandavágur
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Vága Municipality, Vágar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.05448° or 62° 3′ 16″ northLongitude
-7.15107° or 7° 9′ 4″ westPopulation
1,030Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)Open location code
9CJJ3R3X+QHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023794OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2614265Wikidata ID
Q845272
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Turkish—“Sandavágur” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Сандавоавур”
- Catalan: “Sandavágur”
- Chinese: “桑达瓦古尔”
- Czech: “Sandavágur”
- Danish: “Sandavagur”
- Danish: “Sandavágur”
- Danish: “Sandevåg”
- Dutch: “Sandavagur”
- Dutch: “Sandavágur”
- Faroese: “Sandavágur”
- French: “Sandavágur”
- German: “Sandavagur”
- German: “Sandavágur”
- Greek: “Σάνταβαγκουρ”
- Hungarian: “Sandavágur”
- Icelandic: “Sandavágur”
- Icelandic: “Sandavogur”
- Irish: “Sandavágur”
- Italian: “Municipalità di Sandavágur”
- Italian: “Sandavágur”
- Kalaallisut: “Sandavágur”
- Lithuanian: “Sandavaguras”
- Manx: “Sandavagur”
- Manx: “Sandavágur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandavágur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandevåg”
- Norwegian: “Sandavágur”
- Polish: “Sandavágur”
- Romanian: “Sandavagur”
- Romanian: “Sandavágur”
- Russian: “Сандавагур”
- Russian: “Сандаваугюр”
- Russian: “Сандавоавур”
- Slovak: “Sandavágur”
- Spanish: “Sandavagur”
- Spanish: “Sandavágur”
- Swedish: “Sandavagur”
- Swedish: “Sandavágur”
- Turkish: “Sandavágur”
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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 “Sandavágur”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.