Borgarfjörður
Borgarfjörður is a fjord in the west of Iceland near the town of Borgarnes. Although the waters of Borgarfjörður appear calm, the fjord has significant undercurrents and shallows.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Axel Kristinsson, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Fjord
- Description: fjord
- Also known as: “Borgar Fiord”, “Borgar Fjord”, “Borgar Fjörd”, and “Borgarfjördhur”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borgarnes.
Borgarnes
Photo: OddurBen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Borgarnes is a town in West Iceland about 75 km north of Reykjavík, with a population of around 2000. It stands by a fjord called Borgarfjörður and is the centre of a vast municipality, Borgarbyggð.
Borgarfjörður
- Categories: fjord, inlet, and body of water
- Location: Borgarbyggð, West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Borgarfjörður” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Боргар-фіёрд”
- Cebuano: “Borgarfjörður”
- Chinese: “博尔加峡湾”
- Dutch: “Borgarfjordur”
- Dutch: “Borgarfjörður”
- French: “Borgarfjordur”
- French: “Borgarfjorður”
- French: “Borgarfjördur”
- French: “Borgarfjörður”
- German: “Borgarfjörður”
- Hungarian: “Borgarfjörður”
- Icelandic: “Borgarfjörður”
- Indonesian: “Borgarfjörður”
- Irish: “Borgarfjörður”
- Italian: “Borgarfjörður”
- Japanese: “ボルガルフィヨルズゥル”
- Japanese: “ボルガルフィヨルズル”
- Korean: “보르가르피외르뒤르”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borgarfjord”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borgarfjördur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borgarfjörður”
- Ossetian: “Боргарфьордур”
- Ossetian: “Боргарфьордюр”
- Polish: “Borgarfjörður”
- Portuguese: “Borgarfjördur”
- Portuguese: “Borgarfjörður”
- Russian: “Боргар-фьорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Borgarfjörður”
- Slovenian: “Borgarfjörður”
- Spanish: “Borgarfjörður”
- Swedish: “Borgarfjord”
- Swedish: “Borgarfjördur”
- Swedish: “Borgarfjörður”
- Welsh: “Borgarfjörður”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Borgarfjörður”. Photo: Axel Kristinsson, CC BY 2.0.