Vogar
Vogar is a municipality located on the Reykjanes Peninsula in western Iceland, between Reykjavík and Keflavík. Its centre and seat is in the town of Vogar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,740 residents
- Description: municipality in Southern Peninsula, Iceland
- Postal code: 190
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Njardvik and Reykjanesbaer.
Njardvik
Town
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Njarðvík is a town in southwestern Iceland, on the peninsula of Reykjanes. As of 2025, its population was 10.000. Njardvik is situated 8 km west of Vogar.
Reykjanesbaer
Town
Photo: Helgi Halldórsson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Reykjanesbær is a municipality on the Southern Peninsula in Iceland, though the name is also used by locals to refer to the suburban region of Keflavík and Njarðvík which have grown together over the years. Reykjanesbaer is situated 8 km west of Vogar.
Keflavík
Keflavík is a town in Southwest Iceland that is home to the country's international airport. The population was approximately 16,000 in 2018, before further municipality mergers.
Vogar
- Categories: municipality of Iceland and locality
- Location: Sveitarfélagið Vogar, Southern Peninsula, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
63.98321° or 63° 58′ 60″ northLongitude
-22.38745° or 22° 23′ 15″ westPopulation
1,740Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)United Nations Location Code
IS VOGOpen location code
99MVXJM7+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 421609805OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Vogar” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vogar”
- Asturian: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Basque: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Catalan: “Vogar”
- Chinese: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Chinese: “沃加尔”
- Chinese: “沃加尔市镇”
- Dutch: “Sveitarfelagid Vogar”
- Dutch: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Dutch: “Sveitarfelagidh Vogar”
- Dutch: “Sveitarfélagidh Vogar”
- Dutch: “Vogar”
- French: “Vogar”
- German: “Vogar”
- Hungarian: “Vogar (önkormányzat)”
- Hungarian: “Vogar”
- Icelandic: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Icelandic: “Vatnsleysustrandarhreppur”
- Icelandic: “Voga”
- Icelandic: “Vogar á Vatnsleysuströnd”
- Icelandic: “Vogar”
- Icelandic: “Vogum”
- Indonesian: “Vogar”
- Irish: “Vogar”
- Malay: “Vogar (perbandaran)”
- Malay: “Vogar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Northern Sami: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Northern Sami: “Vogar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vogar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vogar”
- Norwegian: “Vogar”
- Persian: “شهردای وگار”
- Polish: “Vogar (gmina)”
- Polish: “Vogar”
- Russian: “Вогар (община)”
- Russian: “Вогар”
- Slovenian: “Vogar”
- Spanish: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Swedish: “Sveitarfélagið Vogar”
- Turkish: “Vogar”
- Ukrainian: “Вогар”
- Ukrainian: “Воґар”
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