Mykines
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Mykines, Faroe Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Mykines.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mykines.
Mykines
Village
Photo: Arne List, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mykines is the only settlement on Mykines Island, the westernmost of the Faroe Islands. It is a little coastal village with bright houses with turf roofs, with an old turf-roofed stone Church dating from 1878, and a small stream flowing through the village.
Mykines
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Vágar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.1045° or 62° 6′ 16″ northLongitude
-7.5964° or 7° 35′ 47″ westPopulation
16Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)Open location code
9CJJ4C33+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 19072819OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Mykines” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Miçines adası”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Мічынес”
- Belarusian: “Мікінес”
- Belarusian: “Мічынес”
- Belarusian: “Мічынэс”
- Catalan: “Mykines”
- Chinese: “米基內斯島”
- Chinese: “米基内斯岛”
- Czech: “Mykines”
- Danish: “Myggenæs”
- Danish: “Mykines”
- Dutch: “Mykines”
- Dutch: “Mykinesholmur”
- Dutch: “Mykineshólmur”
- Esperanto: “Mykines”
- Faroese: “Mykines”
- Finnish: “Mykines”
- French: “Mykines”
- German: “Mykines”
- Greek: “Μίκινες”
- Greek: “Μυκήνες”
- Hebrew: “מייקינס”
- Hungarian: “Mykines”
- Icelandic: “Mykines”
- Indonesian: “Mykines”
- Irish: “Mykines”
- Italian: “Mykines”
- Japanese: “ミキネス島”
- Korean: “미키네스섬”
- Latvian: “Mīčinēsa”
- Lithuanian: “Mičinesas”
- Manx: “Mykines, Ellanyn ny Geyrragh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mykines”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mykines”
- Norwegian: “Mykines”
- Ossetian: “Микинес”
- Ossetian: “Мичинес”
- Polish: “Mykines”
- Portuguese: “Mykines”
- Romanian: “Insula Mykines”
- Russian: “Микинес”
- Russian: “Мичинес”
- Russian: “Остров Микинес”
- Scots: “Mykines”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mykines”
- Slovak: “Mykines”
- Spanish: “Mykines”
- Swedish: “Mykines”
- Turkish: “Mykines, Faroe Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Мічинес”
- Urdu: “میکائنز”
- Vietnamese: “Mykines”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Mykines”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.