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Akureyri

Akureyri, with a population of around 19,000, is the largest town in outside the , and the unofficial capital of .
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  • Type: Town with 20,100 residents
  • Description: town in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Akreyri” and “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Postal codes: 600, 601, and 603
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Akureyri Botanical Garden and Akureyrarkirkja.

Garden
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The is a unique and significant botanical garden located in the southern part of Akureyri, a city in Northern . Situated on the west side of the inland end of the fjord , at an elevation of about 45 metres, the garden is one of the northernmost botanical gardens in the world, just 85 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle.

Church
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or The Church of Akureyri is a prominent Lutheran church at Akureyri in northern . Located in the centre of the city, it was designed by Guðjón Samúelsson and completed in 1940.

Art gallery
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The was founded in 1993. The museum is located in the center of Akureyri, the second-largest city in Iceland. Originally home to a dairy, the building which houses the gallery is noted as a good example of the Bauhaus school of architecture.

Akureyri

Latitude
65.6826° or 65° 40′ 58″ north
Longitude
-18.0913° or 18° 5′ 29″ west
Population
20,100
IATA airport code
AEY
United Nations Location Code
IS AKU
Open location code
9CQ3MWM5+3F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 242107681
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2633274
Wiki­data ID
Q29042
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Akureyri” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Akureyri”
  • Albanian: “Akureyri”
  • Arabic: “أكوريري”
  • Aragonese: “Akureyri”
  • Armenian: “Աքուրեյրի”
  • Arpitan: “Akureyri”
  • Asturian: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Asturian: “Akureyri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aküreyri”
  • Bashkir: “Акюрейри”
  • Basque: “Akureyri”
  • Belarusian: “Акурэйры”
  • Belarusian: “Акюрэйры”
  • Bengali: “আকুরেইরি”
  • Bislama: “Akureyri”
  • Breton: “Akureyri”
  • Bulgarian: “Акюрейри”
  • Catalan: “Akureyri”
  • Cebuano: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Cebuano: “Akureyri (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Akureyri”
  • Chinese: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Chinese: “阿克雷里”
  • Chinese: “阿库雷里”
  • Choctaw: “Akureyri”
  • Cornish: “Akureyri”
  • Corsican: “Akureyri”
  • Creek: “Akureyri”
  • Croatian: “Akureyri”
  • Czech: “Akureyri”
  • Danish: “Akureyri”
  • Dutch: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Dutch: “Akureyri”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكوريرى”
  • Esperanto: “Akurejro”
  • Esperanto: “Akureyri”
  • Estonian: “Akureyri”
  • Faroese: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Faroese: “Akureyri”
  • Fijian: “Akureyri”
  • Finnish: “Akureyri”
  • Finnish: “Akureyrí”
  • French: “Akureyri”
  • Friulian: “Akureyri”
  • Galician: “Akureyri”
  • Georgian: “აკურეირი”
  • German: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • German: “Akureyri”
  • Greek: “Ακουρέιρι”
  • Greek: “Άκουρεϊρι”
  • Greek: “Ακουρεΰρι”
  • Greek: “Άκουρεϋρι”
  • Hebrew: “אקוריירי”
  • Hungarian: “Akureyri”
  • Icelandic: “Akureyrar”
  • Icelandic: “Akureyrarbær”
  • Icelandic: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Icelandic: “Akureyri”
  • Ido: “Akureyri”
  • Igbo: “Akureyri”
  • Indonesian: “Akureyri”
  • Interlingua: “Akureyri”
  • Interlingue: “Akureyri”
  • Irish: “Akureyri”
  • Italian: “Akureyri”
  • Japanese: “アークルエイリ”
  • Japanese: “アークレイリ”
  • Japanese: “アクレイリ”
  • Jutish: “Akureyri”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Akureyri”
  • Kalaallisut: “Akureyri”
  • Kashubian: “Akureyri”
  • Kazakh: “Акюрейри”
  • Korean: “아쿠레이리”
  • Korean: “아퀴레이리”
  • Kotava: “Akureyri”
  • Ladin: “Akureyri”
  • Ladino: “Akureyri”
  • Latin: “Akureyri”
  • Latvian: “Agireiri”
  • Latvian: “Akireiri”
  • Latvian: “Akureiri”
  • Latvian: “Akureyri”
  • Ligurian: “Akureyri”
  • Limburgan: “Akureyri”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Akureyri”
  • Lithuanian: “Akureiris”
  • Lithuanian: “Akureyri”
  • Lombard: “Akureyri”
  • Low German: “Akureyri”
  • Lower Silesian: “Akureyri”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Akureyri”
  • Luxembourgish: “Akureyri”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Akureyri”
  • Macedonian: “Акирејри”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Akureyri”
  • Malay: “Akureyri”
  • Manx: “Akureyri”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Mingrelian: “აკურეირი”
  • Mirandese: “Akureyri”
  • Moksha: “Акурэйри”
  • Narom: “Akureyri”
  • Nauru: “Akureyri”
  • Neapolitan: “Akureyri”
  • Niuean: “Akureyri”
  • Northern Frisian: “Akureyri”
  • Northern Sami: “Akureyri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akueyri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akureyri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akureyri”
  • Norwegian: “Akureyri”
  • Novial: “Akureyri”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Akureyri”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Æcerōratūn”
  • Ossetian: “Акурейри”
  • Ossetian: “Акюрейри”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Akureyri”
  • Persian: “آکوریری”
  • Picard: “Akureyri”
  • Piemontese: “Akureyri”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Akureyri”
  • Plautdietsch: “Akureyri”
  • Polish: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Polish: “Akureyri”
  • Portuguese: “Akureyri”
  • Romanian: “Akureyri”
  • Romansh: “Akureyri”
  • Russian: “Акурейри”
  • Russian: “Акюрейри”
  • Sardinian: “Akureyri”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Akureyri”
  • Scots: “Akureyri”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Akureyri”
  • Serbian: “Аkurejri”
  • Serbian: “Акирејри”
  • Serbian: “Акурејри”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akureyri”
  • Sicilian: “Akureyri”
  • Silesian: “Akureyri”
  • Slovak: “Akureyri”
  • Slovenian: “Akureyri”
  • Spanish: “Akureyri”
  • Swahili: “Akureyri”
  • Swedish: “Akureyrarkaupstaður”
  • Swedish: “Akureyri (regionhuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Akureyri”
  • Tatar: “Акүрейри”
  • Tatar: “Акюрейри”
  • Thai: “อาคือเรย์รี”
  • Turkish: “Akureyri”
  • Ukrainian: “Ак’юрейрі”
  • Ukrainian: “Акурейрі”
  • Ukrainian: “Акюрейрі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Akureyri”
  • Urdu: “آکوریرے”
  • Uzbek: “Akureyri”
  • Venetian: “Akureyri”
  • Veps: “Aküreiri”
  • Vietnamese: “Akureyri”
  • Vietnamese: “Black”
  • Vlaams: “Akureyri”
  • Volapük: “Akureyri”
  • Walloon: “Akureyri”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akureyri”
  • Welsh: “Akureyri”
  • Western Frisian: “Akureyri”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿克雷里”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿克雷里”
  • Zeeuws: “Akureyri”
  • “Akureyri”

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