Skagafjörður
Skagafjörður is a municipality that covers most of the land area of the region around the fjord with the same name in northern Iceland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Iceland with 4,310 residents
- Description: municipality in Northwestern Region, Iceland
- Also known as: “5200”, “Skagafjörður (municipality)”, “Sveitarfelagid Skagafjoerdur”, “Sveitarfelagid Skagafjordur”, and “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reykjafoss and Víðimýri.
Víðimýri
Church
Photo: Villy Fink Isaksen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Víðimýri is an estate in Skagafjörður, Iceland south of Varmahlíð, which overlooks it. The area was previously a part of Seyluhreppur. The estate used to be a manor and was, at the end of the 12th century and during the 13th century, the residence of the… Víðimýri is situated 4½ km north of Skagafjörður.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Varmahlid.
Varmahlid
Village
Varmahlíð is a small village in Skagafjörður, northern Iceland. In 2011 around 140 people lived on the eastern slope of the hill for which the town is named. Varmahlid is situated 6 km north of Skagafjörður.
Skagafjörður
- Location: Northwest, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Skagafjörður” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Skagafjörður”
- Asturian: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Basque: “Skagafjörður”
- Belarusian: “Скагаф’ёрдур”
- Catalan: “Skagafjörður”
- Cebuano: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Chinese: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Chinese: “斯卡加菲厄泽”
- Danish: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Dutch: “Skagafjordhur”
- Dutch: “Skagafjördhur”
- Dutch: “Skagafjordur”
- Dutch: “Skagafjörður”
- Faroese: “Skagafjörður kommuna”
- Finnish: “Skagafjörður”
- French: “Skagafjörður”
- German: “Hofsos”
- German: “Skagafjörður”
- German: “Sveitarfelagid Skagafjördur”
- German: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Hebrew: “סקגפוירד”
- Hungarian: “Skagafjörður”
- Icelandic: “Skagafjörður”
- Icelandic: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Ido: “Skagafjörður Komono”
- Indonesian: “Kota Skagafjörður”
- Indonesian: “Skagafjörður”
- Irish: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Italian: “Saudarkrokur”
- Italian: “Sauðárkrókur”
- Italian: “Skagafjordur”
- Italian: “Skagafjörður”
- Japanese: “スカーガフィヨルズル (基礎自治体)”
- Japanese: “スカーガフィヨルズル”
- Malay: “Skagafjörður”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Moksha: “Скагафьордур”
- Northern Sami: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sveitarfelagid Skagafjordur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sveitarfelagid Skagafjørdur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Norwegian: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Polish: “Skagafjörður”
- Russian: “Скагафьордюр”
- Spanish: “Skagafjörður”
- Swedish: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Turkish: “Skagafjörður”
- Turkish: “Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður”
- Ukrainian: “Скаґафьордур”
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