Saltangará
Saltangará is a village in the Faroe Islands, on the island of Eysturoy. Saltangará was founded in 1846 and is situated on the eastern side of Eysturoys Skalafjordur-inlet between Rituvík and Søldarfjørður.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,200 residents
- Description: settlement on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Heiðarnar”, “Saltangara”, and “Saltangeraa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glyvra Church and Við Løkin.
Við Løkin
Pitch
Photo: Timmietovenaar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Við Løkin is a stadium in Runavík, Faroe Islands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of NSÍ Runavík. The stadium holds 1,500 people.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glyvrar and Runavík.
Glyvrar
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glyvrar is a village located on Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands. It is one of several villages on the east side of the Skálafjørður fjord that have grown into a 10-kilometre-long conurbation.
Runavík
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Runavík is a comparatively urbanised village in Runavík Municipality, Faroe Islands. It lies on the south half of the isle of Eysturoy.
Saltnes
Village
Photo: Tofts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saltnes is a village on the island of Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, in Nes Municipality. The population was 152 in August 2022.
Saltangará
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Runavík, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.11892° or 62° 7′ 8″ northLongitude
-6.72021° or 6° 43′ 13″ westPopulation
1,200Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)Open location code
9CJM479H+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023792OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2614304Wikidata ID
Q1025146
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Saltangará” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Saltangará”
- Danish: “Saltangara”
- Danish: “Saltangará”
- Danish: “Saltangerå”
- Dutch: “Saltangara”
- Dutch: “Saltangará”
- Faroese: “Saltangará”
- French: “Saltangara”
- French: “Saltangará”
- German: “Saltangara”
- German: “Saltangará”
- Greek: “Σάλτανγκαρα”
- Hungarian: “Saltangará”
- Icelandic: “Saltangará”
- Irish: “Saltangará”
- Manx: “Saltangara”
- Manx: “Saltangará”
- Northern Frisian: “Saltangará”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saltangará”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saltangerå”
- Norwegian: “Saltangará”
- Polish: “Saltangara”
- Polish: “Saltangará”
- Romanian: “Saltangara”
- Romanian: “Saltangará”
- Russian: “Сальтенгароа”
- Spanish: “Saltangara”
- Spanish: “Saltangará”
- Swedish: “Saltangara”
- Swedish: “Saltangará”
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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 “Saltangará”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.