Hvalba
Hvalba is a village and a municipality in the Faroe Islands, which consists of Hvalba, Nes-Hvalba and Sandvík. The village spreads around the bottom of a deep inlet, Hvalbiarfjørður, in the northeast of Suðuroy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 567 residents
- Description: settlement on Suduroy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Hvalböur”, “Hvalbøur”, and “Kvalbö”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hvalbiar kirkja and Sandvíkar kirkja.
Sandvíkar kirkja
Church
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sandvíkar kirkja is a church, which is situated 4 km north of Hvalba.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hvalbiareiði and Sandvík.
Hvalbiareiði
Locality
Hvalbiareiði is also called Fiskieiði, it is located on the west coast of Suðuroy, west of the village Hvalba.
Sandvík
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandvík is the northernmost village of the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands. It is situated on the northern side of a shallow fjord. The village was previously known as Hvalvík. Sandvík is situated 4 km north of Hvalba.
Trongisvágur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trongisvágur is a village on the island of Suduroy in the Faroe Islands. Trongisvágur is the village in the bottom of Trongisvágsfjørður on the east coast of Suduroy. Trongisvágur is situated 7 km southeast of Hvalba.
Hvalba
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Hvalbøur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.60063° or 61° 36′ 2″ northLongitude
-6.95683° or 6° 57′ 25″ westPopulation
567Elevation
145 metres (476 feet)Open location code
9CHMJ22V+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 29023755OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2619596Wikidata ID
Q666627
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Hvalba” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Hvalba”
- Chinese: “克瓦尔巴”
- Czech: “Hvalba”
- Danish: “Hvalba”
- Danish: “Kvalbø”
- Dutch: “Hvalba”
- Esperanto: “Hvalba”
- Faroese: “Hvalba”
- Faroese: “Hvalbøur”
- French: “Hvalba”
- German: “Hvalba”
- Greek: “Κβάλμπα”
- Hungarian: “Hvalba”
- Icelandic: “Hvalba”
- Icelandic: “Hvalbær”
- Irish: “Hvalba”
- Lithuanian: “Hvalba”
- Manx: “Hvalba”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvalba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvalba”
- Norwegian: “Hvalba”
- Ossetian: “Хвальбæ”
- Polish: “Hvalba”
- Portuguese: “Hvalba”
- Romanian: “Hvalba”
- Russian: “Квальба”
- Spanish: “Hvalba”
- Swedish: “Hvalba”
- Swedish: “Hvalbøur”
- Turkish: “Hvalba”
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