Alftanes
Álftanes is the name of a town and a collection of small peninsulas in Iceland. It means swan peninsula. The best known of these peninsulas extrudes from the eastern part of Reykjanes with the town of the same name in the Capital Region of Iceland.- Village with about 2,480 residents
- Description: town, former municipality on the same-named low-lying peninsula in Greater Reykjavík Area, Iceland
- Postal code: 225
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Bessastaðir
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Places in the Area
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Hafnarfjörður
Hafnarfjörður is a town in Southwest Iceland with a population of 30,000.
Garðabaer
Garðabær is a town and municipality in the Capital Region of Iceland.
5 km east of Alftanes
Kaplakriki
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5 km southeast of Alftanes
Alftanes
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Latitude
64.1056° or 64° 6′ 20″ north
Longitude
-22.02019° or 22° 1′ 13″ west
Open location code
99PV4X4H+6W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = village
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Alftanes” goes by many names.
AulftanesasAlbanian
ألفتينسArabic
ÁlftanesAsturian
ÁlftanesBasque
АльфтанесBelarusian
АльфтанэсBelarusian
ÁlftanesCatalan
奧爾塔內斯Chinese
ÁlftanesCzech
ÁlftanesDanish
ÁlftanesDutch
ÁlftanesEsperanto
ÁlftanesFinnish
ΆλφτανεςGreek
אאולפטאנסHebrew
ÁlftanesIcelandic
ÁlftanesiIcelandic
Sveitarfélagið ÁlftanesIcelandic
ÁlftanesIndonesian
ÁlftanesItalian
アゥルタネースJapanese
아울프타네스Korean
ÁlftanesLatin
AulftanesasLithuanian
ÁlftanesLuxembourgish
АулфтанесMacedonian
ÁlftanesMalay
АультанэсMoksha
ÁlftanesNorthern Sami
Sveitarfélagið ÁlftanesNorthern Sami
ÁlftanesNorwegian
ÁlftanesNorwegian Bokmål
ÁlftanesOccitan (post 1500)
آلفتانسPersian
ÁlftanesPolish
АульфтанесRussian
ÁlftanesScots
ÁlftanesSerbo-Croatian
ÁlftanesSlovenian
ÁlftanesSwedish
ÁlftanesTurkish
АльфтанесUkrainian
АультанесUkrainian
ÁlftanesUzbek
ÁlftanesWelsh
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