Höfn

Höfn (pronounced something like "herpn", also known as Höfn í Hornafirði, is a town in , at the south-eastern corner of the country. Höfn sits by the lagoon Hornafjörður which is also the name of the large municipality of which the town is the centre and which covers the entire area of the county Austur-Skaftafellssýsla.
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  • Type: Town with 1,810 residents
  • Description: town in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Hofn”
  • Postal codes: 780 and 781

Höfn

Latitude
64.2533° or 64° 15′ 12″ north
Longitude
-15.208° or 15° 12′ 29″ west
Population
1,810
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
HFN
United Nations Location Code
IS HFN
Open location code
9CP67Q3R+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249085731
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2630299
Wiki­data ID
Q817118
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Höfn” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Höfn”
  • Arabic: “هوفن”
  • Asturian: “Höfn í Hornafirði”
  • Basque: “Höfn”
  • Belarusian: “Гёбн”
  • Belarusian: “Хёбн”
  • Bengali: “হোফ্‌ন”
  • Catalan: “Höfn”
  • Cebuano: “Höfn”
  • Chinese: “Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður”
  • Chinese: “赫本”
  • Czech: “Höfn í Hornafirði”
  • Czech: “Höfn”
  • Dutch: “Hoefn”
  • Dutch: “Hofn”
  • Dutch: “Höfn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هوفن”
  • Esperanto: “Höfn í Hornafirði”
  • Esperanto: “Höfn”
  • Finnish: “Höfn”
  • French: “Höfn í Hornafirði”
  • French: “Höfn”
  • German: “Höfn í Hornafirði”
  • German: “Höfn”
  • Hebrew: “הרפ”
  • Hungarian: “Höfn”
  • Icelandic: “Hafnar í Hornafirði”
  • Icelandic: “Hafnar”
  • Icelandic: “Hafnarhreppur”
  • Icelandic: “Höfn í Hornafirði”
  • Icelandic: “Höfn”
  • Ido: “Höfn”
  • Indonesian: “Hornafjörður”
  • Irish: “Höfn”
  • Italian: “Höfn”
  • Japanese: “ヘープン”
  • Japanese: “ヘプン”
  • Japanese: “ホプン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Höfn”
  • Korean: “회픈”
  • Latin: “Höfn”
  • Lithuanian: “Hiobnas”
  • Macedonian: “Хебн”
  • Macedonian: “Хепн”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður”
  • Nauru: “Höfn”
  • Ossetian: “Хебн”
  • Ossetian: “Хёбн”
  • Ossetian: “Хёфн”
  • Persian: “هوپن”
  • Polish: “Hofn”
  • Polish: “Höfn”
  • Portuguese: “Höfn”
  • Russian: “Хёбн”
  • Russian: “Хёфн”
  • Russian: “Хофн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Höfn”
  • Slovak: “Höfn”
  • Spanish: “Höfn”
  • Swedish: “Höfn”
  • Turkish: “Höfn”
  • Ukrainian: “Гебн”
  • Ukrainian: “Гепн”
  • Ukrainian: “Гефн”
  • Ukrainian: “Гьопн”
  • Ukrainian: “Хебн”
  • Volapük: “Höfn í Hornafirði”
  • Volapük: “Höfn”
  • Welsh: “Höfn í Hornafirði”
  • Welsh: “Hofn”
  • Welsh: “Höfn”

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