Saksun
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- Type: Village with 11 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Saken”, “Sakshøvn”, and “Saxen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saksun Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tjørnuvík and Haldórsvík.
Tjørnuvík
Village
Photo: siegfriedrabanser, CC BY 2.0.
Streymoy is the largest of the Faroe Islands. The 24,700 inhabitants make up nearly half of the population of the Faroe Islands. Tjørnuvík is situated 5 km north of Saksun.
Haldórsvík
Village
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Streymoy is the largest of the Faroe Islands. The 24,700 inhabitants make up nearly half of the population of the Faroe Islands. Haldórsvík is situated 5 km northeast of Saksun.
Ljósá
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ljósá is a village located on Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands, in Eiði Municipality. It is located 4 km south of Eiði and 4 km north of Svínáir. The village was founded around 1840. Ljósá is situated 6 km northeast of Saksun.
Saksun
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: Sunda, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.24423° or 62° 14′ 39″ northLongitude
-7.17125° or 7° 10′ 17″ westPopulation
11Elevation
197 metres (646 feet)Open location code
9CJJ6RVH+MGOpenStreetMap ID
node 559626795OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2614323Wikidata ID
Q928875
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Swedish—“Saksun” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Вёска Саксун”
- Belarusian: “Саксун”
- Catalan: “Saksun”
- Chinese: “萨克森”
- Czech: “Saksun”
- Danish: “Saksen”
- Danish: “Saksun”
- Dutch: “Saksun”
- Faroese: “Saksun”
- Finnish: “Saksun”
- French: “Saksun”
- German: “Saksun”
- Hungarian: “Saksun”
- Icelandic: “Saksun”
- Icelandic: “Saxhöfn”
- Ido: “Saksun”
- Italian: “Saksun”
- Japanese: “サクソン (フェロー諸島)”
- Japanese: “サクソン”
- Lithuanian: “Saksunas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saksun”
- Norwegian: “Saksun”
- Ossetian: “Саксун”
- Persian: “ساکسون (جزایر فارو)”
- Persian: “ساکسون”
- Polish: “Saksun”
- Romanian: “Saksun”
- Russian: “Саксун”
- Swedish: “Saksun”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Saksun”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.