Kirkja
Kirkja is a village on the island of Fugloy, Faroe Islands. It is located on the south-tip of the island, and its land is stretching all over the western side of the island, including a small enclave in the now uninhabited Skarðsvík.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kirkju kirkja and Hattarvíkar kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hattervig and Svínoy.
Hattervig
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hattarvík is a small village on the east side of the island of Fugloy, Faroe Islands, and is the easternmost settlement in the Faroes archipelago. The village is encircled by high mountains on three sides.
Svínoy
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Svínoy is the only village on the northern Faroese island of the same name in Klaksvík Municipality. Until 1 January 2009 it was the only village in the now abolished Svínoy Municipality. Svínoy is situated 4½ km south of Kirkja.
Kirkja
- Type: Village with 29 residents
- Description: settlement on Fugloy, Faroe Islands
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Fugloy, Northern Islands, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.31852° or 62° 19′ 7″ northLongitude
-6.31634° or 6° 18′ 59″ westPopulation
29Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)Open location code
9CJM8M9M+CFOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023763OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2618855Wikidata ID
Q375415
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Kirkja” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Kirkja”
- Chinese: “奇尔恰”
- Danish: “Kirke”
- Danish: “Kirkja”
- Dutch: “Kirkja”
- Faroese: “Kirkja”
- French: “Kirkja”
- German: “Kirkja”
- Hebrew: “קירקיה”
- Hungarian: “Kirkja”
- Irish: “Kirkja”
- Italian: “Kirkja”
- Japanese: “フグロイ島”
- Lithuanian: “Čirčia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirkja”
- Norwegian: “Kirkja”
- Ossetian: “Чирчæ”
- Polish: “Kirkja”
- Romanian: “Kirkja”
- Russian: “Чирча”
- Russian: “Чирчья”
- Spanish: “Kirkja”
- Swedish: “Kirkja”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Kirkja”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.