Suðurnesjabær
Suðurnesjabær is a municipality on the northwest tip of Iceland's Southern Peninsula. It includes the towns of Sandgerði and Garður, and was created on 10 June 2018 from a merger of those two municipalities, with the name chosen by its residents the following November.- Type: Municipality with 4,230 residents
- Description: municipality in Southern Iceland
- Also known as: “Sameinað sveitarfélag Garðs og Sandgerðis”, “sudurnesjabaer”, and “Sudurnesjabaer”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Garðskagaviti and Garður Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandgerði and Garður.
Sandgerði
Town
Sandgerði, also known as Sandgerðisbær, is a town in southwestern Iceland on the Southern Peninsula.
Suðurnesjabær
- Categories: municipality of Iceland and locality
- Location: Southern Peninsula, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
64.0705° or 64° 4′ 14″ north
Longitude
-22.6503° or 22° 39′ 1″ west
Population
4,230
Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)
Open location code
99PV38CX+5V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipality
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Suðurnesjabær” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Basque: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Catalan: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Chinese: “南半岛镇”
- Dutch: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Finnish: “Suðurnesjabær”
- French: “Suðurnesjabær”
- German: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Hungarian: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Icelandic: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Indonesian: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Irish: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Italian: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Norwegian: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Polish: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Portuguese: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Russian: “Сюдюрнесьябайр”
- Swedish: “Suðurnesjabær”
- Turkish: “Suðurnesjabær”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Holt and Tún.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Íþróttamiðstöðin Garði and Sikið.
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