Iceland
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Bakkafjordur

Bakkafjörður is a small fishing village in North-East , located in a fjord with the same name. The village has 72 inhabitants and is part of the regional service center of district in .
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  • Type: Hamlet with 66 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Bakkafjoerdur” and “Bakkafjörður”
  • Postal code: 685

Bakkafjordur

Latitude
66.03654° or 66° 2′ 12″ north
Longitude
-14.80414° or 14° 48′ 15″ west
Population
66
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
IATA airport code
BJD
United Nations Location Code
IS BAK
Open location code
9CR725PW+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 580229725
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2632969
Wiki­data ID
Q922058
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Volapük—“Bakkafjordur” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Chinese: “巴卡菲厄泽”
  • Chinese: “巴卡菲厄澤”
  • Dutch: “Bakkafjörður”
  • French: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Galician: “Bakkafjörður”
  • German: “Bakkafjörður (Ort)”
  • German: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Icelandic: “Bakkafirði”
  • Icelandic: “Bakkafjarðar”
  • Icelandic: “Bakkafjörð”
  • Icelandic: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Irish: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Polish: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Polish: “Höfn”
  • Portuguese: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Romanian: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Spanish: “Bakkafjörður”
  • Volapük: “Bakkafjörður”

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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 “Bakkafjordur”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.