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Akraneskaupstaður

Akranes

Akranes is a port town and municipality on the west coast of , around 50 km north of the capital . The area where Akranes is located was settled in the 9th century; however, it did not receive a municipal charter until 1942.
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  • Type: Town with 8,290 residents
  • Description: town in Iceland
  • Postal codes: 300 and 301

Places of Interest

Highlights include Akranesvöllur and Grundaskóli.

Stadium
is a football stadium in Akranes, . It is currently used for football matches. The stadium holds 5,550 and was built in 1935. It has 850 seats.

School
is one of two schools in the port town of Akranes, on the west coast of Iceland, established in 1981. The other school is Brekkubæjarskóli.

Akranes

Latitude
64.31708° or 64° 19′ 2″ north
Longitude
-22.08335° or 22° 5′ 0″ west
Population
8,290
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IS AKR
Open location code
99PV8W88+RM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 122273962
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3418653
Wiki­data ID
Q107398
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Akranes” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Akranes”
  • Arabic: “أكرانيس”
  • Aragonese: “Akranes”
  • Asturian: “Akranes”
  • Basque: “Akranes”
  • Belarusian: “Акранэс”
  • Bulgarian: “Акранес”
  • Catalan: “Akranes”
  • Cebuano: “Akranes”
  • Chechen: “Akranes”
  • Chechen: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Chechen: “Акранес”
  • Chechen: “Акранескойпстадур”
  • Chinese: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Chinese: “阿克拉內斯”
  • Chinese: “阿克拉内斯”
  • Czech: “Akranes”
  • Czech: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Danish: “Akranes”
  • Dutch: “Akranes”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكرانيس”
  • Esperanto: “Akranes”
  • Estonian: “Akranes”
  • Estonian: “Skagi”
  • Faroese: “Akranes”
  • Faroese: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Finnish: “Akranes”
  • French: “Akranes”
  • Galician: “Akranes”
  • Georgian: “აკრანესი”
  • German: “Akranes”
  • Greek: “Ακρανές”
  • Greek: “Άκρανες”
  • Hebrew: “אקרנס”
  • Hungarian: “Akranes”
  • Icelandic: “Akranes”
  • Icelandic: “Akranesi”
  • Icelandic: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Icelandic: “Skaginn”
  • Icelandic: “Skipaskagi”
  • Icelandic: “Ytri-Akraneshreppur”
  • Ido: “Akranes”
  • Indonesian: “Akranes”
  • Irish: “Akranes”
  • Italian: “Akranes”
  • Japanese: “アークラネース”
  • Japanese: “アクラネース”
  • Kalaallisut: “Akranes”
  • Kazakh: “Akranes”
  • Kazakh: “Акранес”
  • Kazakh: “اكرانەس”
  • Korean: “아크라네스”
  • Kotava: “Akranes”
  • Latin: “Akranes”
  • Lithuanian: “Akranes”
  • Lithuanian: “Akranesas”
  • Low German: “Akranes”
  • Macedonian: “Акранес”
  • Malay: “Akranes”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Mingrelian: “აკრანესი”
  • Moksha: “Акранэс”
  • Northern Sami: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akranes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akraneskaupstadur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akranes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Norwegian: “Akranes”
  • Norwegian: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Akranes”
  • Ossetian: “Акранес”
  • Persian: “اکرانس”
  • Polish: “Akranes”
  • Portuguese: “Akranes”
  • Romanian: “Akranes”
  • Russian: “Акранес”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Akranes”
  • Serbian: “Akranes”
  • Serbian: “Акранес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akranes”
  • Silesian: “Akranes”
  • Spanish: “Akranes”
  • Swedish: “Akranes”
  • Swedish: “Akraneskaupstaður”
  • Turkish: “Akranes”
  • Ukrainian: “Акранес”
  • Urdu: “آکرانیس”
  • Uzbek: “Akranes”
  • Vietnamese: “Akranes”
  • Volapük: “Akranes”
  • Welsh: “Akranes”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿克拉内斯”

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