Grafarvogur
Grafarvogur is among the largest residential districts of Reykjavík, Iceland. It is a relatively new neighbourhood and is located on the eastern-most side of Reykjavík. Major construction began in the late 1980s and continued well into the 1990s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Arbaer Outdoor Museum and Fjölnisvöllur.
Arbaer Outdoor Museum
Museum
Árbæjarsafn is the historical museum of the city of Reykjavík as well as an open-air museum and a regional museum. Its purpose is to give the public an insight into the living conditions, work and recreational activities of the people of Reykjavík in earlier times.
Fjölnisvöllur
Pitch
Fjölnisvöllur is a football stadium in Iceland. It is located in Grafarvogur, Reykjavík, and seats 700 individuals in one stand, but can hold about 500 standing spectators additionally. It is the home stadium for Icelandic football team Fjölnir.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kópavogur and Mosfellsbaer.
Kópavogur
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Kópavogur is a town in Iceland that is the country's second-largest municipality by population. It lies immediately south of Reykjavík and is part of the Capital Region.
Mosfellsbaer
Town
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Mosfellsbær is a town in south-west Iceland, 12 kilometres east of the country's capital, Reykjavík. The coat of arms of the municipality is a tightly-knotted triquetra, a symbol often used in Celtic knotwork and strongly associated with the Celtic nations. Mosfellsbaer is situated 7 km northeast of Grafarvogur.
Reykjavík
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Reykjavík is the capital of and largest city in Iceland and with an urban area population of around 233,000, it is the home to two-thirds of Iceland's population.
Grafarvogur
- Type: Bay
- Description: district in Reykjavík, Iceland
- Categories: district of Reykjavík and body of water
- Location: Capital Region, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Grafarvogur” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Графарвогур”
- Cebuano: “Grafarvogur”
- Estonian: “Grafarvogur”
- French: “Grafarvogur”
- German: “Grafarvogur”
- Icelandic: “Grafarvogur”
- Russian: “Граварвогюр”
- Spanish: “Grafarvogur”
- Swedish: “Grafarvogur”
- Ukrainian: “Граварвогур”
- Ukrainian: “Ґраварвоґур”
- Ukrainian: “Граварвогюр”
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