Vága Municipality

Vágar Municipality is a municipality in the Faroese Islands. It covers the eastern part of the island of . It was created on 1 January 2009 by fusing the two municipalities of Miðvágur and Sandavágur.
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  • Municipality of the Faroe Islands with 2,190 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 75 metres (246 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code FAE
  • …is also known as “Vágar Municipality”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of Sandavágur and Miðvágs kirkja.
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Sandavágur Church is a distinctive red-roofed church in the town of in the .
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is a church, which is situated 4 km southwest of Vága Municipality.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sandavágur and Miðvágur.
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is a town on the south coast of the of .
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, is a village in the Faroe Islands on . is situated 4 km south of Vága Municipality.
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is a village founded in 1921 in the middle of the of Vagar. is situated 4½ km west of Vága Municipality.

Vága Municipality

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Latitude
62.0827° or 62° 4′ 58″ north
Longitude
-7.1617° or 7° 9′ 42″ west
Open location code
9CJJ3RMQ+38
Geo­Names ID
7798680
Wiki­data ID
Q1079322

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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 Frisian: “Vágar”
  • 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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