Skagastrond
Skagaströnd, previously Höfðakaupstaður, is a municipality and village in the Northwestern Region of Iceland. It is situated on the western side of the Skagi peninsula, along the east coast of the Húnaflói.- Type: Locality with 470 residents
- Description: village in Northwestern Region, Iceland
- Also known as: “Höfðakaupstaður”, “Kántríbær”, “Skagastrands”, “Skagastroend”, “Skagaströnd”, and “Skagaströnd (village)”
- Postal code: 545
Skagastrond
- Category: town
- Location: Sveitarfélagið Skagaströnd, Northwest, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.82319° or 65° 49′ 24″ north
Longitude
-20.30248° or 20° 18′ 9″ west
Population
470
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IS SKA
Open location code
99QXRMFX+72
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Volapük—“Skagastrond” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Skagaströnd”
- Asturian: “Skagaströnd”
- Basque: “Skagaströnd”
- Catalan: “Skagaströnd”
- Cebuano: “Skagaströnd”
- Chinese: “斯卡加斯特伦”
- Chinese: “斯卡加斯特倫”
- Czech: “Skagaströnd”
- Danish: “Skagaströnd”
- Dutch: “Skagaströnd”
- Esperanto: “Skagaströnd”
- Finnish: “Skagaströnd”
- French: “Skagaströnd”
- German: “Skagaströnd”
- Hungarian: “Skagaströnd”
- Icelandic: “Skagastrandar”
- Icelandic: “Skagaströnd”
- Indonesian: “Skagaströnd”
- Irish: “Skagaströnd”
- Italian: “Skagaströnd”
- Japanese: “スカガストロンド”
- Malay: “Skagaströnd”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sveitarfélagið Skagaströnd”
- Northern Sami: “Skagaströnd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skagaströnd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skagaströnd”
- Norwegian: “Skagaströnd”
- Polish: “Skagaströnd”
- Portuguese: “Skagaströnd”
- Russian: “Скагастрёнд (поселение)”
- Russian: “Скагастрёнд”
- Spanish: “Skagaströnd”
- Swedish: “Skagaströnd”
- Turkish: “Skagaströnd”
- Volapük: “Skagaströnd”
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