Borgarnes

Borgarnes is a town in about 75 km north of , with a population of around 2000. It stands by a fjord called Borgarfjörður and is the centre of a vast municipality, Borgarbyggð.
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  • Type: Town with 2,250 residents
  • Description: town in Iceland
  • Postal codes: 310 and 311

Places of Interest

Highlights include Borgarfjarðarbrú and Borg á Mýrum.

Bridge
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is the second longest bridge in , after Skeiðarárbrú. It spans , linking Borgarnes to Route 1 and connecting it with other parts of the country.

Residential building
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Borg is a settlement due west of Borgarnes township in Iceland. Its recorded history reaches back to the settlement of Iceland. One of the country's original settlers was Skallagrímur Kveldúlfsson, who claimed the area around Borg as his land, built a farm and made his home there.

Borgarnes

Latitude
64.5383° or 64° 32′ 18″ north
Longitude
-21.9202° or 21° 55′ 13″ west
Population
2,250
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IS BOR
Open location code
99PWG3QH+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 122275012
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3418076
Wiki­data ID
Q276537
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Borgarnes” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورغارنيس”
  • Armenian: “Բորգարնես”
  • Asturian: “Borgarnes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Borqarnes”
  • Basque: “Borgarnes”
  • Belarusian: “Боргарнес”
  • Belarusian: “Боргарнэс”
  • Bulgarian: “Боргарнес”
  • Catalan: “Borgarnes”
  • Cebuano: “Borgarnes (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Borgarnes”
  • Chinese: “博尔加内斯”
  • Chinese: “博爾加內斯”
  • Czech: “Borgarnes”
  • Danish: “Borgarnes”
  • Dutch: “Borgarnes”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورجارنيس”
  • Esperanto: “Borgarnes”
  • Estonian: “Borgarnes”
  • Estonian: “Digranes”
  • French: “Borgarnes”
  • Georgian: “ბორგარნესი”
  • German: “Borgarnes”
  • Hebrew: “בורגארנס”
  • Hebrew: “בורגרנס”
  • Icelandic: “Borganes”
  • Icelandic: “Borgarnes”
  • Icelandic: “Borgarnesbær”
  • Icelandic: “Borgarneshreppur”
  • Icelandic: “Borgarnesi”
  • Indonesian: “Borgarbyggð”
  • Indonesian: “Borgarnes”
  • Irish: “Borgarnes”
  • Japanese: “ボルガルネース”
  • Kazakh: “Borgarnes”
  • Kazakh: “Боргарнес”
  • Kazakh: “بورگارنەس”
  • Korean: “보르가르네스”
  • Latin: “Borgarnes”
  • Lithuanian: “Borgarnesas”
  • Macedonian: “Боргарнес”
  • Macedonian: “Поргарнес”
  • Malay: “Borgarbyggð”
  • Mingrelian: “ბორგარნესი”
  • Moksha: “Боргарнэс”
  • Northern Sami: “Borgarnes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Borgarnes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borgarnes”
  • Norwegian: “Borgarnes”
  • Ossetian: “Боргарнес”
  • Persian: “پورکارنس”
  • Polish: “Borgarnes”
  • Portuguese: “Borgarnes”
  • Russian: “Борганес”
  • Russian: “Боргарнес”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Borgarnes”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Borgarnes”
  • Slovenian: “Borgarnes”
  • Spanish: “Borgarnes”
  • Swedish: “Borgarbyggð”
  • Swedish: “Borgarbyggðs kommun”
  • Swedish: “Borgarnes”
  • Turkish: “Borgarnes”
  • Ukrainian: “Боргарнес”
  • Ukrainian: “Борґарнес”
  • Urdu: “بورگارنس”
  • Uzbek: “Borgarnes”
  • Volapük: “Borgarnes”
  • Welsh: “Borgarnes”

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