Glyvrar
Glyvrar is a village located on Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands. It is one of several villages on the east side of the Skálafjørður fjord that have grown into a 10-kilometre-long conurbation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Glyvra Church and Svangaskarð.
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. Svangaskarð is situated 3 km south of Glyvrar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saltangará and Lambareiði.
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.
Lambareiði
Village
Lambareiði is a village on the Faroese island of Eysturoy in Runavík Municipality.
Lamba
Village
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Lamba, is a small village in the bottom of the inlet of Lambavík on the east coast of Eysturoy, Faroe Islands.
Glyvrar
- Type: Village with 481 residents
- Description: settlement on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Runavík, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.12836° or 62° 7′ 42″ northLongitude
-6.72401° or 6° 43′ 26″ westPopulation
481Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)United Nations Location Code
FO GLYOpen location code
9CJM47HG+89OpenStreetMap ID
node 29023740OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Glyvrar” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Glyvrar”
- Danish: “Glibre”
- Danish: “Glyvrar”
- Dutch: “Glyvrar”
- Faroese: “Glyvrar”
- French: “Glyvrar”
- German: “Glyvrar”
- Greek: “Γκλίβραρ”
- Hungarian: “Glyvrar”
- Icelandic: “Glyvrar”
- Irish: “Glyvrar”
- Manx: “Glyvrar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Glibre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Glyvrar”
- Norwegian: “Glyvrar”
- Polish: “Glyvrar”
- Romanian: “Glyvrar”
- Swedish: “Glibre”
- Swedish: “Glyvrar”
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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 “Glyvrar”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.