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Kópavogur

Kópavogur is a town in that is the country's second-largest municipality by population. It lies immediately south of and is part of the .
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  • Type: Town with 40,000 residents
  • Description: city of Iceland
  • Also known as: “Kópavogsbær”, “Kópavogskaupstaður”, “Kopavogur”, and “Kopvogur”
  • Postal codes: 200-203
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Smáralind and Kópavogsvöllur.

Shopping center
is a shopping mall located in the of Iceland. It is one of the biggest shopping malls in Iceland, with over ninety shops, restaurants and services.

Stadium
Photo: Jóhann Heiðar Árnason, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-use in Kópavogur, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Breiðablik. It is also used for track and field events.

is a natural history museum in , . It is situated on the top of . It was initially only a cluster of hot water tanks, but on June 21, 1991, the building was opened to the public.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Reykjavík and Garðabaer.

Photo: Napoleon tnt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital of and largest city in and with an urban area population of around 233,000, it is the home to two-thirds of Iceland's population.

Town
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Garðabær is a town and municipality in the of .

Locality
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is a multi-purpose stadium in , . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar. is situated 4 km south of Kópavogur.

Kópavogur

Latitude
64.1114° or 64° 6′ 41″ north
Longitude
-21.9048° or 21° 54′ 17″ west
Population
40,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IS KOV
Open location code
99PW436W+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2171340646
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3415212
Wiki­data ID
Q163852
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Kópavogur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kópavogur”
  • Albanian: “Kópavogur”
  • Arabic: “كوبافوغور”
  • Aragonese: “Kópavogur”
  • Armenian: “Կոուպավոգյուր”
  • Asturian: “Kópavogur”
  • Bashkir: “Копавогур”
  • Basque: “Kópavogur”
  • Belarusian: “Каўпавогур”
  • Belarusian: “Каўпавогюр”
  • Belarusian: “Коўпавагур”
  • Belarusian: “Коўпавагюр”
  • Belarusian: “Коўпавогюр”
  • Breton: “Kópavogur”
  • Bulgarian: “Коупавогюр”
  • Catalan: “Kópavogur”
  • Cebuano: “Kópavogur”
  • Chinese: “Kópavogsbær”
  • Chinese: “科帕沃于尔”
  • Chinese: “科帕沃于爾”
  • Chinese: “科波沃”
  • Croatian: “Kópavogur”
  • Czech: “Kópavogur”
  • Danish: “Kopavogur”
  • Danish: “Kópavogur”
  • Dutch: “Kópavogsbær”
  • Dutch: “Kopavogur”
  • Dutch: “Kópavogur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوبافوجور”
  • Esperanto: “Kópavogur”
  • Estonian: “Kopavogur”
  • Estonian: “Kópavogur”
  • Faroese: “Kópavogur”
  • Finnish: “Kopavogur”
  • Finnish: “Kópavogur”
  • French: “Kopavogur”
  • French: “Kópavogur”
  • Georgian: “კოიპავოგური”
  • Georgian: “კუპავოგური”
  • German: “Kópavogsbær”
  • German: “Kopavogur”
  • German: “Kópavogur”
  • Greek: “Kópavogur”
  • Greek: “Κόπαβογκουρ”
  • Hebrew: “קואופווגיר”
  • Hebrew: “קופווגור”
  • Hungarian: “Kópavogur”
  • Icelandic: “Kópavog”
  • Icelandic: “Kópavogi”
  • Icelandic: “Kópavogs”
  • Icelandic: “Kópavogsbær”
  • Icelandic: “Kópavogshreppur”
  • Icelandic: “Kopavogur”
  • Icelandic: “Kópavogur”
  • Icelandic: “Það er gott að búa í Kópavogi”
  • Ido: “Kópavogur”
  • Indonesian: “Kópavogur”
  • Interlingue: “Kópavogur”
  • Italian: “Kopavogur”
  • Italian: “Kópavogur”
  • Japanese: “コーパヴォーグル”
  • Japanese: “コーパヴォグル”
  • Japanese: “コゥパヴォーグル”
  • Japanese: “コウパヴォーグル”
  • Japanese: “コゥパヴォグル”
  • Japanese: “コウパヴォグル”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kópavogur”
  • Kashubian: “Kópavogur”
  • Korean: “코파보구르”
  • Korean: “코파보귀르”
  • Latin: “Kópavogur”
  • Latvian: “Koubavogira”
  • Lithuanian: “Koupavoguras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kopavogur”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kópavogur”
  • Macedonian: “Коупавогир”
  • Malay: “Kópavogur”
  • Manx: “Kópavogur”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kópavogsbær”
  • Mingrelian: “კუპავოგური”
  • Moksha: “Коупавогур”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kópavogur”
  • Northern Sami: “Kópavogur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kopavogur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kópavogur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kópavogur”
  • Norwegian: “Kópavogur”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Copanwæġ”
  • Ossetian: “Коупавогур”
  • Ossetian: “Коупавогюр”
  • Persian: “کوپاووگور”
  • Polish: “Kopavogur”
  • Polish: “Kópavogur”
  • Portuguese: “Kópavogur”
  • Romanian: “Kópavogur”
  • Russian: “Копавогур”
  • Russian: “Копавогюр”
  • Russian: “Коупавогур”
  • Russian: “Коупавогюр”
  • Scots: “Kópavogur”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kópavogur”
  • Serbian: “Koupavogir”
  • Serbian: “Копавогур”
  • Serbian: “Коупавогир”
  • Serbian: “Коупавогур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kópavogur”
  • Sicilian: “Kópavogsbær”
  • Sicilian: “Kópavogur”
  • Slovak: “Kópavogur”
  • Slovenian: “Kópavogur”
  • Spanish: “Kópavogsbær”
  • Spanish: “Kopavogur”
  • Spanish: “Kópavogur”
  • Swahili: “Kópavogur”
  • Swedish: “Kópavogsbær”
  • Swedish: “Kopavogur”
  • Swedish: “Kópavogur”
  • Tatar: “Коупавогүр”
  • Tatar: “Коупавогюр”
  • Thai: “โคปาโวก”
  • Turkish: “Kopavogur”
  • Turkish: “Kópavogur”
  • Ukrainian: “Копавогур”
  • Ukrainian: “Коупавоґур”
  • Ukrainian: “Коупавогюр”
  • Urdu: “کھپاووگور”
  • Veps: “Koupavogür”
  • Vietnamese: “Kópavogsbær”
  • Vietnamese: “Kópavogur”
  • Volapük: “Kópavogur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kópavogur”
  • Welsh: “Kópavogur”
  • Wu Chinese: “科帕沃于尔”

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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 “Kópavogur”. Photo: Axel Kristinsson, CC BY 2.0.