Runavík
Runavík is a comparatively urbanised village in Runavík Municipality, Faroe Islands. It lies on the south half of the isle of Eysturoy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 590 residents
- Description: settlement on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Runavik”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Við Løkin and Svangaskarð.
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.
Svangaskarð
Pitch
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saltnes and Saltangará.
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
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Toftir
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Runavík
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Runavík, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.1084° or 62° 6′ 30″ northLongitude
-6.72167° or 6° 43′ 18″ westPopulation
590Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)United Nations Location Code
FO RVKOpen location code
9CJM475H+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 29023785OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Runavík” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Runavík”
- Belarusian: “Рунавік”
- Catalan: “Runavík”
- Chinese: “魯納維克”
- Chinese: “鲁纳维克”
- Czech: “Runavík”
- Danish: “Runavik”
- Danish: “Runavík”
- Danish: “Runevig”
- Dutch: “Runavik”
- Dutch: “Runavík”
- Faroese: “Runavík”
- French: “Runavik”
- French: “Runavík”
- German: “Runavik”
- German: “Runavík”
- Greek: “Ρούναβικ”
- Hungarian: “Runavík”
- Icelandic: “Runavík”
- Irish: “Runavík”
- Italian: “Runavík”
- Japanese: “ルナヴィーク”
- Lithuanian: “Runavikas”
- Manx: “Runavik”
- Manx: “Runavík”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Runavik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Runavík”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Runevig”
- Norwegian: “Runavík”
- Polish: “Runavik”
- Polish: “Runavík”
- Portuguese: “Runavík”
- Romanian: “Runavik”
- Romanian: “Runavík”
- Russian: “Рунавик”
- Russian: “Рунавуйк”
- Scots: “Runavík”
- Slovak: “Runavík”
- Spanish: “Runavik”
- Spanish: “Runavík”
- Swedish: “Runavík”
- Turkish: “Runavík”
- Ukrainian: “Рунавік”
- Welsh: “Runavik”
- Welsh: “Runavík”
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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 “Runavík”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.