Norðurþing
Norðurþing is a municipality located in northern Iceland. Norðurþing was formed in 2006 when the municipalities of Húsavík, Öxarfjörður, Raufarhöfn, and Kelduneshreppur were merged after special elections in January 2006 and the region was officially declared a new municipality on 10 June 2006.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Iceland with 3,110 residents
- Description: municipality in northern Iceland
- Also known as: “6100” and “Nordurthing”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ásbyrgi.
Ásbyrgi
Locality
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Ásbyrgi is a glacial canyon and forest in the north of Iceland, located approximately 38 kilometres east of Húsavík on the Diamond Circle road. The horseshoe-shaped depression is part of the Vatnajökull National Park and measures approximately 3.5 km in length and over 1 km wide. Ásbyrgi is situated 4½ km southwest of Norðurþing.
Norðurþing
- Location: Northeast, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Turkish—“Norðurþing” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Norðurþing”
- Asturian: “Norðurþing”
- Basque: “Norðurþing”
- Belarusian: “Нордзюртынг”
- Catalan: “Norðurþing”
- Cebuano: “Norðurþing (lalawigan sa Islandya)”
- Cebuano: “Norðurþing”
- Chinese: “Norðurþing”
- Chinese: “诺泽辛”
- Danish: “Norðurþing”
- Dutch: “Norðurþing”
- Esperanto: “Norðurþing”
- Finnish: “Norðurþing”
- French: “Norðurþing”
- Georgian: “ნორდურპინგი”
- German: “Norðurþing”
- Hungarian: “Norðurþing”
- Icelandic: “Norðurþing”
- Indonesian: “Norðurþing”
- Irish: “Norðurþing”
- Italian: “Norðurþing”
- Malay: “Norðurþing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Norðurþing”
- Northern Sami: “Norðurþing”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Norðurþing”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norðurþing”
- Norwegian: “Norðurþing”
- Polish: “Norðurþing”
- Portuguese: “Norðurþing”
- Russian: “Нордуртинг”
- Russian: “Нордюртинг”
- Spanish: “Norðurþing”
- Swedish: “Norðurþing (sýsla i Island)”
- Swedish: “Norðurþing”
- Turkish: “Norðurþing”
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