Hafnarfjörður
Hafnarfjörður is a town in Southwest Iceland with a population of 30,000. The town was built atop lava fields that erupted 12,000 years ago. Hafnarfjörður was first settled in the late 14th century, a long history as a town by Icelandic standards, although today it is considered a suburb of Reykjavík.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 31,500 residents
- Description: town of Iceland
- Also known as: “Hafnarfirdi”, “Hafnarfjoerdur”, “Hafnarfjordur”, “Halfnarfjorður”, and “Гапнарфьордур”
- Postal codes: 220-222
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hellisgerði and Free Church in Hafnarfjörður.
Free Church in Hafnarfjörður
Church
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
The Free Church in Hafnarfjörður is a church in the Free Lutheran congregation of Iceland, located in Hafnarfjörður. The church was founded on 22 April 1913.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garðabaer and Kaplakriki.
Garðabaer
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Garðabær is a town and municipality in the Capital Region of Iceland.
Kaplakriki
Locality
Photo: SergejPassau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kaplakriki is a multi-purpose stadium in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar.
Hafnarfjörður
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Capital Region, Southwest Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
64.0695° or 64° 4′ 10″ northLongitude
-21.9576° or 21° 57′ 27″ westPopulation
31,500Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)United Nations Location Code
IS HAFOpen location code
99PW329R+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 2171372991OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Hafnarfjörður” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Arabic: “هافنارفيوردور”
- Aragonese: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Armenian: “Հաբնարֆյորդյուր”
- Asturian: “Hafnarfjordur”
- Asturian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Basque: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Belarusian: “Габнарф’ёрдур”
- Belarusian: “Хабнарф’ёрдзюр”
- Belarusian: “Хабнарф’ёрдур”
- Belarusian: “Хабнарфіёрдур”
- Bengali: “হাফনারফিয়র্ডুর”
- Bulgarian: “Хапнарфьордюр”
- Catalan: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Cebuano: “Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður”
- Cebuano: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Chinese: “Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður”
- Chinese: “哈夫纳夫约杜尔”
- Chinese: “哈布納菲厄澤”
- Chinese: “哈布纳菲厄泽”
- Croatian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Czech: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Czech: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Danish: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Danish: “Havnefjord”
- Dutch: “Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður”
- Dutch: “Hafnarfjordhur”
- Dutch: “Hafnarfjördhur”
- Dutch: “Hafnarfjordur”
- Dutch: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه هافنارفيوردور”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هافنارفيوردور”
- Esperanto: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Estonian: “Hafnarfjördhur”
- Estonian: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Estonian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Faroese: “Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður”
- Faroese: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Finnish: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Finnish: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Finnish: “Hafnarfjørður”
- Finnish: “Hafnarfjörour”
- Finnish: “Hafnarfjöröur”
- Finnish: “Hafnarfjörthur”
- French: “Hafnarfjordur”
- French: “Hafnarfjorður”
- French: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Galician: “Hafnarfjordur”
- Galician: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Georgian: “ჰაბნარფიორდური”
- Georgian: “ჰაბნარფორდიური”
- German: “Hafnarfjördur”
- German: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Greek: “Χάφναρφγιορδουρ”
- Greek: “Χάφναρφγιορντουρ”
- Greek: “Χαφναρφιόρδουρ”
- Greek: “Χάφναρφιορδουρ”
- Hebrew: “הפנרפיירדור”
- Hebrew: “הפנרפיירדיר”
- Hungarian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Icelandic: “Hafnarfirði”
- Icelandic: “Hafnarfjarðar”
- Icelandic: “Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður”
- Icelandic: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Ido: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Indonesian: “Hafnarfjordur”
- Indonesian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Irish: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Italian: “Hafnarfjordur”
- Italian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Japanese: “ハプナルフィエルズル”
- Japanese: “ハフナルフィヨルズゥル”
- Japanese: “ハプナルフィヨルズル”
- Kalaallisut: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Kashubian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Kazakh: “Xabnarfʹordyur”
- Kazakh: “Хабнарфьордюр”
- Kazakh: “حابنارفورديۋر”
- Korean: “하프나르피외르뒤르”
- Latin: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Latvian: “Habnarfjerdira”
- Lithuanian: “Habnarfjorduras”
- Lithuanian: “Hafnarfjorduras”
- Lombard: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Low German: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Low German: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Macedonian: “Хапнарфјердир”
- Malay: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Manx: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður”
- Mingrelian: “ჰაბნარფიორდური”
- Moksha: “Габнарфьордюр”
- Moksha: “Гапнарфьордур”
- Northern Frisian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Northern Sami: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hafnarfjarðarbær”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Norwegian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hafnarfjörður”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hafnesfyrð”
- Ossetian: “Хабнарфьёрдур”
- Ossetian: “Хабнарфьордюр”
- Persian: “هاپنارفیورویر”
- Persian: “هافنارفیورذور”
- Polish: “Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður”
- Polish: “Hafnarfjordur”
- Polish: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Portuguese: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Portuguese: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Romanian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Russian: “Хабнарфьёрдур”
- Russian: “Хабнарфьордюр”
- Russian: “Хафнарфьордур”
- Russian: “Хафнарфьордюр”
- Scots: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Serbian: “Хабнарфјердир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Sicilian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Silesian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Slovak: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Slovenian: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Spanish: “Hafnarfjordur”
- Spanish: “Hafnarfjorður”
- Spanish: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Spanish: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Swahili: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Swedish: “Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður”
- Swedish: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Swedish: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Tatar: “Хабнарфьордюр”
- Tatar: “Һабнарфьөрдүр”
- Turkish: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Ukrainian: “Гапнарф’єрдюр”
- Ukrainian: “Гапнарфйордур”
- Veps: “Habnarfjordür”
- Vietnamese: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Volapük: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hafnarfjörður”
- Welsh: “Hafnarfjördur”
- Welsh: “Hafnarfjörður”
- Wu Chinese: “哈布纳菲厄泽”
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