Streymoy
Streymoy is the largest of the Faroe Islands. The 24,700 inhabitants make up nearly half of the population of the Faroe Islands.Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Top destinations include Tórshavn and Kollafjørður.
Tórshavn
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Tórshavn is the capital of the Faroe Islands. At the foot of a mountain range, the archipelago's largest city has a long history dating back as far as 850 AD.
Kollafjørður
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Kollafjørður is a village in the Faroe Islands, located on the island of Streymoy. As of 29. April 2025, the village had a population of 815. Its postal code is FO 410.
Kirkjubøur
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Kirkjubøur is the southernmost village on Streymoy. The village is the Faroes' most important historical site, with the ruins of the Magnus Cathedral from around 1300, Saint Olav's Church, from the 12th century and the old farmhouse of Kirkjubøargarður from the 11th century.
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Hvalvík
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Hvalvík is a village in the Faroe Islands, located in a valley on the east coast of the island of Streymoy. It is the southern half of a twin-village situated on both sides of the valley.
Streymoy
- Type: island with 3,360 residents
- Description: island in the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Streymoy region”, “Streymoyar Sysla”, and “Streymoyar Sýsla”
- Location: Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Frisian—“Streymoy” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ስትሬሞይ”
- Arabic: “ستريموي”
- Azerbaijani: “Streymoy”
- Basque: “Streymoy”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Стрэймой”
- Belarusian: “Стрэймай”
- Belarusian: “Стрэймой”
- Bengali: “স্ট্রেময়”
- Breton: “Streymoy”
- Catalan: “Streymoy”
- Chinese: “斯特勒姆岛”
- Chinese: “斯特勒姆島”
- Czech: “Streymoy”
- Danish: “Streymoy”
- Danish: “Strømø Syssel”
- Danish: “Strømø”
- Dutch: “Streymoy”
- Esperanto: “Streymoy”
- Estonian: “Streymoy”
- Faroese: “Streymoy”
- Faroese: “Streymoyar sýsla”
- Finnish: “Streymoy”
- French: “Streymoy”
- German: “Streymoy”
- German: “Strömö”
- German: “Strømø”
- Greek: “Στρέιμοϊ”
- Hausa: “Streymoy”
- Hebrew: “סטריימוי”
- Hungarian: “Streymoy”
- Icelandic: “Straumey”
- Icelandic: “Streymoy”
- Indonesian: “Streymoy”
- Irish: “Streymoy”
- Italian: “Streymoy”
- Japanese: “ストレイモイ”
- Japanese: “ストレイモイ島”
- Javanese: “Streymoy”
- Kazakh: “Стрөймөй”
- Kirghiz: “Стрөймөй”
- Korean: “스트레이모이섬”
- Korean: “스트뢰뫼”
- Latvian: “Streimoja”
- Lithuanian: “Streimojaus regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Streimojus”
- Lithuanian: “Strėjmojus”
- Lombard: “Streymoy”
- Low German: “Streumoog”
- Low German: “Ströymoug”
- Malay: “Streymoy”
- Northern Frisian: “Streymoy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Streymoy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Strømø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Streymoy”
- Norwegian: “Streymoy”
- Oromo: “Streymoy”
- Ossetian: “Стреймой”
- Panjabi: “ਸਟ੍ਰੇਮਾਇ”
- Persian: “استرومو”
- Persian: “استریموی”
- Polish: “Streymoy”
- Portuguese: “Streymoy”
- Pushto: “سترېموی”
- Romanian: “Streymoy”
- Russian: “Стреймой”
- Scots: “Streymoy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Streymoy”
- Serbian: “Strejmoj”
- Serbian: “Стрејмој”
- Slovak: “Streymoy”
- Somali: “Streymoy”
- Spanish: “Streymoy”
- Swahili: “Streymoy”
- Swedish: “Böllufjall”
- Swedish: “Bøllufjall”
- Swedish: “Hugvan”
- Swedish: “Húgvan”
- Swedish: “Lagafjall”
- Swedish: “Lágafjall”
- Swedish: “Mosarökur”
- Swedish: “Mulin”
- Swedish: “Múlin”
- Swedish: “Nugvan”
- Swedish: “Núgvan”
- Swedish: “Sneis”
- Swedish: “Stigarnir”
- Swedish: “Stígarnir”
- Swedish: “Streymoy”
- Swedish: “Strömö”
- Swedish: “Víkartindur”
- Tajik: “Стреймӣ”
- Tatar: “Стрәймой”
- Thai: “Streymoy”
- Thai: “Stromo”
- Thai: “สเตรอเมอ”
- Turkish: “Streymoy”
- Ukrainian: “Стреймой”
- Uzbek: “Streymoy”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Streymoy”
- Vietnamese: “Streymoy”
- Western Frisian: “Streymoy”
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