Borgarnes
Borgarnes is a town in West Iceland about 75 km north of Reykjavík, with a population of around 2000. It stands by a fjord called Borgarfjörður and is the centre of a vast municipality, Borgarbyggð.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: OddurBen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 2,150 residents
- Description: town in Iceland
- Postal codes: 310 and 311
Places of Interest
Highlights include Borgarfjarðarbrú and Borg á Mýrum.
Borgarfjarðarbrú
Bridge
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Borgarfjarðarbrú is the second longest bridge in Iceland, after Skeiðarárbrú. It crosses Borgarfjörður, linking Borgarnes to Route 1 and connecting the town with other parts of Iceland.
Borg á Mýrum
Residential building
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
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Borgarbyggð, West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
64.5383° or 64° 32′ 18″ northLongitude
-21.9202° or 21° 55′ 13″ westPopulation
2,150Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
IS BOROpen location code
99PWG3QH+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 122275012OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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: “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: “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”
- Uzbek: “Borgarnes”
- Volapük: “Borgarnes”
- Welsh: “Borgarnes”
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