Bøur
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- Type: Village with 66 residents
- Description: settlement on Vágar, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Bö”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bíggjar church and Eysturtindur.
Eysturtindur
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Eysturtindur is the second highest point - 714 m - on the island of Vágoy, Faroe Islands. Eysturtindur is situated 3½ km northwest of Bøur.
Skeidin
Peak
Skeiðin is a mountain above the village of Sørvágur in the Faroe Islands. It lies between the village itself and the bay of Selvík. On the top of the mountain is a radio transmitter. Skeidin is situated 3 km southeast of Bøur.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sørvágur and Gásadalur.
Sørvágur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sørvágur is a village on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands. It is located at the landward end of Sørvágsfjørður. Sørvágur is the largest village in Sørvágur Municipality. Sørvágur is situated 4 km southeast of Bøur.
Gásadalur
Village
Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.
Vágar is an island in the Faroe Islands, the island is also called Vága in combination with other words. Gásadalur is situated 4 km northwest of Bøur.
Vatnsoyrar
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vatnsoyrar is a village founded in 1921 in the middle of the Faroese island of Vagar. Vatnsoyrar, being created in 1921, is one of the youngest settlements in the Faroes. Vatnsoyrar is situated 6 km east of Bøur.
Bøur
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Vágar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.08798° or 62° 5′ 17″ northLongitude
-7.37146° or 7° 22′ 17″ westPopulation
66Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)Open location code
9CJJ3JQH+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 29023728OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2623713Wikidata ID
Q855276
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Bøur” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Bøur”
- Chinese: “伯乌尔”
- Danish: “Bø”
- Danish: “Bøur”
- Dutch: “Bøur”
- Esperanto: “Bour”
- Esperanto: “Bøur”
- Faroese: “Bøur”
- Finnish: “Bøur”
- French: “Bøur”
- German: “Bíggjar kommuna”
- German: “Bíggjar Kommuna”
- German: “Bígjjar Kommuna”
- German: “Böur”
- German: “Bøur”
- Hungarian: “Bøur”
- Icelandic: “Bær (Færeyjum)”
- Icelandic: “Bær”
- Irish: “Bøur”
- Lithuanian: “Bjouras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bøur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bøur”
- Norwegian: “Bøur”
- Ossetian: “Бёвур”
- Ossetian: “Боур”
- Polish: “Boeur”
- Polish: “Bour”
- Polish: “Bøur”
- Romanian: “Bøur”
- Spanish: “Bøur”
- Swedish: “Böur”
- Swedish: “Bøur”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Bøur”. Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 4.0.