Breiðafjörður
Breiðafjörður is a large shallow bay of the Irminger Sea, about 50 km wide and 125 km long, to the west of Iceland. It separates the region of the Westfjords from the Snæfellsnes peninsula to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tristan Ferne, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Bay
- Description: large shallow bay in Iceland
- Also known as: “Breiða Fiord”, “Breiða Fjord”, “Breidafjordur”, “Breidi Fjord”, “Breidifjördur”, and “Breiðifjorður”
Breiðafjörður
- Categories: fjord and body of water
- Location: West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vlaams—“Breiðafjörður” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بايدافردر”
- Aragonese: “Breiðafjörður”
- Asturian: “Breiðafjörður”
- Basque: “Breiðafjörður”
- Belarusian: “Брэйда-фіёрд”
- Bulgarian: “Брейдафиорд”
- Catalan: “Breiðafjörður”
- Cebuano: “Breiðafjörður”
- Chinese: “布雷扎湾”
- Czech: “Breiðafjörður”
- Danish: “Breiðafjörður”
- Dutch: “Breiðafjörður”
- Esperanto: “Breiðafjörður”
- Estonian: “Breiðafjörður”
- Finnish: “Breiðafjörður”
- French: “Breiðafjörður”
- Galician: “Breiðafjörður”
- German: “Breiðafjörður”
- Icelandic: “Breiðafjörður”
- Indonesian: “Breiðafjörður”
- Italian: “Breiðafjörður”
- Japanese: “クヴァムスフィヨルズル”
- Japanese: “ブレイザフィヨルズル”
- Javanese: “Breiðafjörður”
- Korean: “브레이다피외르뒤르”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Breidafjord”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Breiðafjörður”
- Norwegian: “Breidafjord”
- Persian: “بریاردفیورو”
- Polish: “Breiðafjörður”
- Portuguese: “Breiðafjörður”
- Russian: “Брейда-фьорд”
- Spanish: “Breiðafjörður”
- Swedish: “Breiðafjörður”
- Ukrainian: “Брейда-фіорд”
- Vlaams: “Breiðafjörður”
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