Vága Municipality
Vágar Municipality is a municipality in the Faroese Islands. It covers the eastern part of the island of Vágar. It was created on 1 January 2009 by fusing the two municipalities of Miðvágur and Sandavágur.Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: municipality of the Faroe Islands with 1,960 residents
- Description: municipality of the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Vaga Municipality”, “Vagar Municipality”, and “Vágar Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Sandavágur and Miðvágs kirkja.
Church of Sandavágur
Church
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandavágur Church is a distinctive red-roofed church in the town of Sandavágur in the Faroe Islands.
Miðvágs kirkja
Church
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Miðvágs kirkja is a church, which is situated 4 km southwest of Vága Municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandavágur and Miðvágur.
Sandavágur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandavágur is a town on the south coast of the Faroese island of Vágar. The name Sandavágur means sandy bay and refers to the sandy beach which used to be much larger than present.
Miðvágur
Village
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Miðvágur, is a village in the Faroe Islands on Vágar. It has been a municipality until 1 January 2009 when it fused with Sandavágur into Vága kommuna. Located on the south coast of the island of Vágar, Miðvágur is the largest town on this Faroese island. Miðvágur is situated 4 km south of Vága Municipality.
Vatnsoyrar
Village
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Vatnsoyrar is a village founded in 1921 in the middle of the Faroese island of Vagar. Vatnsoyrar, being created in 1921, is one of the youngest settlements in the Faroes. Vatnsoyrar is situated 4½ km west of Vága Municipality.
Vága Municipality
- Location: Vágar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Vága Municipality” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Vágar”
- Chinese: “沃格市镇”
- Danish: “Vága kommuna”
- Danish: “Vága Kommune”
- Danish: “Vágar kommune”
- Dutch: “Vága kommuna”
- Faroese: “Vága kommuna”
- Finnish: “Vága”
- Finnish: “Vágar”
- French: “Vága”
- Galician: “Vágar”
- German: “Kommune Vága”
- German: “Vága kommuna”
- German: “Vága Kommune”
- Greek: “Δήμος Βάγκα”
- Hungarian: “Vágar község”
- Italian: “Vágar (comune)”
- Italian: “Vágar”
- Lithuanian: “Vagaro savivaldybė”
- Northern Sami: “Vága kommuna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vága kommuna”
- Norwegian: “Vága kommuna”
- Polish: “Vaga kommuna”
- Polish: “Vága kommuna”
- Polish: “Vágar”
- Russian: “Вага”
- Spanish: “Vagar”
- Spanish: “Vágar”
- Swedish: “Vága kommuna”
- Swedish: “Vágars kommun”
- Turkish: “Vágar (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Vágar”
- Vietnamese: “Vagar”
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