Árborg

Sveitarfélagið Árborg is a municipality in southern . It is the most populous in the region, with a population of 11,565 in 2024. Founded in 1998, its largest town is . and are two communities on the southern coast and Sandvíkurhreppur is a rural administrative region between those three other towns.
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  • Type: municipality of Iceland with 12,100 residents
  • Description: municipality of Iceland
  • Also known as: 8200”, “Arborg”, “Sveitarfelagid Arborg”, and “Sveitarfélagið Árborg

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stokkseyri and Eyrarbakki.

is a town on the southern coast of .

is a fishing village on the south coast of with a population of about 570 people, not including inhabitants of the prison located there. The village is founded on the Great Þjórsá Lava.

Photo: Themrme1, CC0.
is the largest town in . Although it sits by a beautiful spot by the Ölfusá river, it's too close to places like and to be noticed, and too close to for most people to think of it as a place to stay the night.

Árborg

Latitude
63.8871° or 63° 53′ 14″ north
Longitude
-21.0455° or 21° 2′ 44″ west
Population
12,100
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
99MWVXP3+RQ
Geo­Names ID
3426218
Wiki­data ID
Q252205
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Árborg” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Árborg
  • Arabic: أربورغ
  • Aragonese: Árborg
  • Asturian: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Basque: Árborg
  • Belarusian: Аўрбарг
  • Catalan: Árborg
  • Cebuano: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Chinese: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Chinese: 阿堡
  • Czech: Árborg
  • Danish: Árborg
  • Dutch: Árborg
  • Finnish: Árborg
  • French: Árborg
  • German: Árborg
  • German: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Hungarian: Árborg
  • Icelandic: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Ido: Árborg
  • Indonesian: Árborg
  • Irish: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Italian: Árborg
  • Japanese: アーバーグ
  • Japanese: アゥルボルク
  • Japanese: アゥルボルグ
  • Latin: Árborg
  • Malay: Árborg
  • Min Nan Chinese: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Moksha: Аурборг
  • Northern Sami: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Árborg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Árborg
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Norwegian: Árborg
  • Polish: Árborg
  • Portuguese: Árborg
  • Romanian: Árborg
  • Russian: Аурборг
  • Scots: Árborg
  • Spanish: Arborg
  • Spanish: Árborg
  • Spanish: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Swedish: Árborg
  • Swedish: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Turkish: Árborg
  • Turkish: Sveitarfélagið Árborg
  • Ukrainian: Арборг
  • Ukrainian: Аурборґ
  • Volapük: Árborg
  • Welsh: Arborg
  • Welsh: Árborg

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