Mykines
Mykines is the only settlement on Mykines Island, the westernmost of the Faroe Islands. It is a little coastal village with bright houses with turf roofs, with an old turf-roofed stone Church dating from 1878, and a small stream flowing through the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Arne List, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 13 residents
- Description: settlement on Mykines, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Myggenæs Bygd”, “Mykines, Mykines”, and “Mykinesbygd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mykines and Church of Mykines.
Mykines
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Mykines
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Vágar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.10425° or 62° 6′ 15″ northLongitude
-7.64765° or 7° 38′ 52″ westPopulation
13Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
9CJJ4932+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023778OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2616648Wikidata ID
Q1180285
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Mykines” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Mykines”
- Chinese: “米基内斯”
- Danish: “Myggenæs”
- Danish: “Mykines”
- Dutch: “Mykines, Mykines”
- French: “Mykines”
- Greek: “Μίκινες (χωριό)”
- Greek: “Μίκινες”
- Hungarian: “Mykines (település)”
- Hungarian: “Mykines”
- Irish: “Mykines”
- Japanese: “ミキネス”
- Lithuanian: “Mičinesas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mykines”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mykines”
- Ossetian: “Мичинес (хъæу)”
- Ossetian: “Мичинес”
- Polish: “Mykines (osada)”
- Polish: “Mykines”
- Romanian: “Mykines, Mykines”
- Urdu: “میکائنز، میکائنز”
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