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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Municipality with 4,090 residents
- Description: municipality in Southern Iceland
- Also known as: “sudurnesjabaer” and “Sudurnesjabaer”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garðskagaviti and Garður Lighthouse.
Garðskagaviti
Lighthouse
Photo: Akigka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Garðskagaviti is a lighthouse located on Garðskaði, the easternmost tip of Iceland's, Southern Peninsula. Garðskagaviti actually refers to two lighthouses: the first was built in 1897 and, in 1944, a second lighthouse was built to replace the original.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandgerði and Garður.
Sandgerði
Town
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sandgerði, also known as Sandgerðisbær, is a town in southwestern Iceland on the Southern Peninsula. It is part of the municipality of Suðurnesjabær, formed in 2018 when it merged with Garður.
Suðurnesjabær
- Categories: municipality of Iceland and locality
- Location: Southern Peninsula, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
64.0705° or 64° 4′ 14″ northLongitude
-22.6503° or 22° 39′ 1″ westPopulation
4,090Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)Open location code
99PV38CX+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 11989136500OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
12200082Wikidata ID
Q60297275
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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: “Sameinað sveitarfélag Garðs og Sandgerðis”
- 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”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Íþróttamiðstöðin Garði and Sikið.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Suðurnesjabær”. Photo: Steinninn, CC BY-SA 4.0.