Þjórsá
Þjórsá is Iceland's longest river at 230 kilometres. It is in the south of the island. Þjórsá is a glacier river and has its source on the glacier Hofsjökull.
TommyBee, Public domain.- Stream
- …is also known as “Þjórs”
- Description: river in Iceland
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Þykkvibaer.
Þykkvibaer
Hamlet
Þykkvibær, also known as Þykkvabær, is a village… Þykkvibaer is situated 9 km southeast of Þjórsá.
Þjórsá
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Latitude
63.7818° or 63° 46′ 55″ north
Longitude
-20.78562° or 20° 47′ 8″ west
Open location code
99MXQ6J7+PQ
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Þjórsá” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Þjórsá”
- Asturian: “Ríu Þjórsá”
- Basque: “Þjórsá”
- Belarusian: “Рака Цьёўрсаў”
- Belarusian: “Цьёўрсаў”
- Bengali: “থিয়ৌর্সাও নদী”
- Catalan: “Thjórsá”
- Catalan: “Þjórsá”
- Cebuano: “Þjórsá”
- Chinese: “索尔萨河”
- Chinese: “索爾薩河”
- Chinese: “肖尔索河”
- Chinese: “肖爾索河”
- Chinese: “錫尤爾騷河”
- Chinese: “锡尤尔骚河”
- Chuvash: “Тьоурсау”
- Croatian: “Þjórsá”
- Czech: “Thjórsá”
- Czech: “Þjórsá”
- Danish: “Thjorsa”
- Danish: “Þjórsá”
- Dutch: “Thjorsa”
- Dutch: “Þjórsá”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تهچورسا”
- Estonian: “Thjorsa”
- Estonian: “Þjórsá”
- Finnish: “Thjorsa”
- Finnish: “Thjórsá”
- Finnish: “Þjórsá”
- French: “Pjorsa”
- French: “Thjorsa”
- French: “Thjórsá”
- French: “Þjorsa”
- French: “Þjórsá”
- Georgian: “თიოურსაუ”
- Georgian: “ტოურსაუ”
- German: “Thjorsa”
- German: “Thjórsá”
- German: “Þjórsá”
- Greek: “Θγιόρσα”
- Greek: “Θιόρσαου”
- Greek: “Πγιόρσα”
- Hebrew: “ת’יורסאו”
- Hungarian: “Þjórsá”
- Icelandic: “Þjórsá”
- Indonesian: “Thjorsa”
- Indonesian: “Þjórsá”
- Irish: “Þjórsá”
- Italian: “Þjórsá”
- Japanese: “ショゥルスアゥ”
- Japanese: “ショウルスアゥ”
- Japanese: “ショウルス川”
- Ladin: “Þjórsá”
- Lithuanian: “Tjoursau”
- Macedonian: “Тјоурсау”
- Mazanderani: “فیورسا”
- Nauru: “Tioursau”
- Nauru: “Þjórsá”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pjörsä”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thjórsá”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Þjórsá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thjorsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thjorsá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thjorså”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thjórsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thjórsá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thjórså”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thjoursao”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tjorsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tjorsá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tjórsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tjórsá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Þjorsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Þjorsá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Þjórsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Þjórsá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Þjórså”
- Norwegian: “Þjórsá”
- Ossetian: “Тьоурсау”
- Persian: “فیورسا”
- Polish: “Thjorsa”
- Polish: “Thjórsá”
- Polish: “Þjórsá”
- Portuguese: “Þjórsá”
- Quechua: “Thjorsa”
- Quechua: “Thjórsá”
- Quechua: “Þjórsá”
- Russian: “Тьорсо”
- Russian: “Тьоурсау”
- Serbian: “Tjoursau”
- Serbian: “Тјоурсау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Þjórsá”
- Spanish: “Thjorsa”
- Spanish: “Thjorsá”
- Spanish: “Thjórsa”
- Spanish: “Thjórsá”
- Spanish: “Þjorsa”
- Spanish: “Þjorsá”
- Spanish: “Þjórsa”
- Spanish: “Þjórsá”
- Swedish: “Pjorsa”
- Swedish: “Thjorsa”
- Swedish: “Thjórsá”
- Swedish: “Thorsa”
- Swedish: “Thorså”
- Swedish: “Tjorsa”
- Swedish: “Þjórsá”
- Ukrainian: “Тйоурсау”
- Ukrainian: “Тьйоурсау”
- Venetian: “Fiume Þjórsá”
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