Kunoy
Kunoy is a village and municipality in the Faroe Islands. The village itself is located on the western shores of the island of Kunoy, which the town is named after.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kunoyar kirkja and Húsar kirkja.
Húsar kirkja
Church
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Húsar kirkja is a church, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Kunoy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Húsar and Skarð.
Húsar
Village
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Húsar is a village on the island of Kalsoy in the Faroe Islands. Húsar is situated 3½ km southwest of Kunoy.
Skarð
Hamlet
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Skarð is an abandoned village on the east coast of the island of Kunoy in the Norðoyar region of the Faroes. Skarð means mountain pass. On 23 December 1913, all seven able-bodied men of the village perished while out fishing in the village boat. Skarð is situated 3½ km north of Kunoy.
Haraldssund
Village
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Haraldssund is a settlement in the Faroe Islands, situated on the island of Kunoy. Haraldssund is located on the east coast of Kunoy and is connected to the village of Kunoy on the west coast by a tunnel. Haraldssund is situated 4 km southeast of Kunoy.
Kunoy
- Type: Village with 79 residents
- Description: settlement on Kunoy, Faroe Islands
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.29294° or 62° 17′ 35″ northLongitude
-6.67003° or 6° 40′ 12″ westPopulation
79Open location code
9CJM78VH+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023764OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q1093548
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Kunoy” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Kunoy”
- Chinese: “昆诺伊”
- Danish: “Kunø”
- Danish: “Kunoy bygd”
- Danish: “Kunoy”
- Dutch: “Kunoy”
- Faroese: “Kunoy bygd”
- Faroese: “Kunoy”
- Faroese: “Kunoyar bygd”
- French: “Kunoy”
- German: “Kunoy”
- Hungarian: “Kunoy”
- Icelandic: “Kunoy”
- Irish: “Kunoy”
- Italian: “Kunoy”
- Korean: “쿠노이”
- Lithuanian: “Kunojus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunoy”
- Norwegian: “Kunoy”
- Ossetian: “Куной”
- Polish: “Kunoy”
- Romanian: “Kunoy, Kunoy”
- Romanian: “Kunoy”
- Spanish: “Kunoy Villa”
- Swedish: “Kunoy, Kunoy”
- Swedish: “Kunoy”
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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 “Kunoy”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.