Iceland
Northwest
Húnabyggð

Blonduos

Blönduós is a town and former municipality in the north of with a population of 895 in 2018. Like many towns and villages around Iceland, Blönduós did not emerge as a village until the late 19th century.
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  • Type: Town with 886 residents
  • Description: Town on northern shore of Iceland
  • Also known as: “Bloenduos” and “Blönduós”
  • Postal codes: 540 and 541

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blönduós Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY 4.0.
is an airport serving Blönduós, . There are no scheduled flights. It is occasionally used for air ambulances. The nearest airport with scheduled flights is , 148 km from Blönduós.

Blonduos

Latitude
65.66013° or 65° 39′ 37″ north
Longitude
-20.281° or 20° 16′ 52″ west
Population
886
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Inception
1876
IATA airport code
BLO
United Nations Location Code
IS BLO
Open location code
99QXMP69+3J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249088982
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3418130
Wiki­data ID
Q887147
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Blonduos” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Blönduós”
  • Asturian: “Blönduós”
  • Asturian: “Blönduósbær”
  • Basque: “Blönduós”
  • Belarusian: “Блёндуаус”
  • Belarusian: “Блёндуос”
  • Belarusian: “Блёндуоўс”
  • Cebuano: “Blönduós”
  • Chinese: “布倫迪歐斯”
  • Czech: “Blönduós”
  • Danish: “Blönduós”
  • Dutch: “Blonduos”
  • Dutch: “Blönduós”
  • Esperanto: “Blönduós”
  • Finnish: “Blönduós”
  • French: “Blonduos”
  • French: “Blönduos”
  • French: “Blönduós”
  • French: “Hjaltabakki”
  • Georgian: “ბლენდუოუსი”
  • Georgian: “ბლიონდუოუსი”
  • German: “Blönduos”
  • German: “Blönduós”
  • Hungarian: “Blönduós”
  • Icelandic: “Blöndós”
  • Icelandic: “Blönduós”
  • Icelandic: “Blönduósbær”
  • Icelandic: “Blönduóshreppur”
  • Icelandic: “Blönduósi”
  • Indonesian: “Blönduós”
  • Italian: “Blonduos”
  • Italian: “Blönduós”
  • Japanese: “ブリョンドゥオゥス”
  • Korean: “블뢴뒤오스”
  • Malay: “Blönduós”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Blönduós”
  • Moksha: “Блёндюоус”
  • Northern Sami: “Blönduós”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blönduós”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blönduós”
  • Norwegian: “Blönduós”
  • Ossetian: “Блендуоус”
  • Ossetian: “Блёндуоус”
  • Ossetian: “Блёндюоус”
  • Persian: “بلوندوس”
  • Polish: “Blonduos”
  • Polish: “Blönduós”
  • Portuguese: “Blönduós”
  • Russian: “Блёндуоус”
  • Russian: “Блёндюоус”
  • Spanish: “Blönduós”
  • Swedish: “Blönduos”
  • Swedish: “Blönduós”
  • Tatar: “Блөндүоус”
  • Ukrainian: “Бльондюоус”
  • Uzbek: “Blönduós”
  • Volapük: “Blönduós”
  • Welsh: “Blonduos”
  • Welsh: “Blönduós”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Blonduos”. Photo: Yvonne Lin, CC BY-SA 2.0.