Hnífsdalur
Hnífsdalur is a small village in the municipality of Ísafjarðarbær, located between Bolungarvík and Ísafjörður. The literal meaning of the name is "Knife's Valley".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 218 residents
- Description: human settlement in Iceland
- Also known as: “Hmifsdalur” and “Hnifsdalur”
- Postal code: 401
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ísafjarðarkirkja.
Ísafjarðarkirkja
Church
Photo: Banja-Frans Mulder, CC BY 3.0.
Ísafjarðarkirkja is a church, which is situated 4 km south of Hnífsdalur.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ísafjörður and Bolungarvik.
Ísafjörður
Ísafjörður is a town in the northwest of Iceland. The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or eyri, in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord which meets the waters of the larger fjord Ísafjarðardjúp.
Bolungarvik
Town
Photo: Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bolungarvík is a small town and the only built-up area in the municipality of Bolungarvíkurkaupstaður in the northwest of Iceland, located on the Westfjords peninsula, approximately 14 km from the town of Ísafjörður and 473 km from the capital city Reykjavík. Bolungarvik is situated 8 km northwest of Hnífsdalur.
Hnífsdalur
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ísafjarðarbær, Westfjords, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
66.10966° or 66° 6′ 35″ northLongitude
-23.1202° or 23° 7′ 13″ westPopulation
218Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
99RR4V5H+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 256613236OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3416267Wikidata ID
Q2412862
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Hnífsdalur” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hnífsdalur”
- Dutch: “Hnífsdalur”
- French: “Hnífsdalur”
- German: “Hnífsdalur”
- Icelandic: “Hnífsdal”
- Icelandic: “Hnífsdals”
- Icelandic: “Hnífsdalur”
- Irish: “Hnífsdalur”
- Polish: “Hnífsdalur”
- Portuguese: “Hnífsdalur”
- Silesian: “Hnífsdalur”
- Swedish: “Hnífsdalur”
- Uzbek: “Hnífsdalur”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Hnífsdalskapella and Félagsheimilið í Hnífsdal.
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