Suðuroy
Suðuroy is the southernmost of the Faroe Islands. The island covers 163.7 square kilometres. In 2018 the population was 4,601. Suðuroy region comprises this island and Lítla Dímun, the next isle northward in the Faroes, which is uninhabited.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: island with 4,680 residents
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Suduroy”, “Suðuroy region”, and “Suduroyar sysla”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Borgarknappur and Á Eiðinum.
Borgarknappur
Peak
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Borgarknappur is a mountain in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands.
Á Eiðinum
Pitch
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á Eiðinum is a multi-use stadium in Vágur, which is one of the larger villages in the southernmost island Suduroy in the Faroe Islands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Suðuroy, formerly called VB/Sumba.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vágur and Porkeri.
Vágur
Village
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Vágur, meaning bay, is a town and municipality on the island of Suðuroy, part of the Faroe Islands. It is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and was founded in the fourteenth century.
Porkeri
Village
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Porkeri is a village in the Faroe Islands, situated northeast of Vágur on Suðuroy's east coast. As of 2020 it had a population of 318, and it has been inhabited at least as early as the 14th century.
Hov
Village
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Hov is a village located on Suðuroy's east coast, in the Faroe Islands; it is frequently mentioned in the country's history. Salmon sea farming has been practiced in Hov since the 1980s.
Suðuroy
- Location: Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Suðuroy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة سودوروي”
- Arabic: “سودوروي”
- Azerbaijani: “Suvuroy adası”
- Basque: “Suðuroy”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сувурой”
- Belarusian: “Сувурай”
- Belarusian: “Сувурой”
- Catalan: “Suðuroy”
- Chinese: “南岛”
- Chinese: “苏德岛”
- Chinese: “蘇德島”
- Czech: “Suðuroy”
- Danish: “Suderø syssel”
- Danish: “Suderø”
- Danish: “Suðuroy”
- Dutch: “Suduroy”
- Dutch: “Suðuroy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سودوروى”
- Esperanto: “Suðuroy”
- Estonian: “Suðuroy”
- Faroese: “Suðuroy”
- Faroese: “Suðuroyar sýsla”
- Finnish: “Suðuroy”
- French: “Île de Suðuroy”
- French: “Sudhuroy”
- French: “Suduroy”
- French: “Suðuroy”
- German: “Suduroy”
- German: “Suðuroy”
- Greek: “Σούντουροϊ”
- Hebrew: “סוד’ורוי”
- Hungarian: “Suðuroy”
- Icelandic: “Suðurey”
- Icelandic: “Suðuroy”
- Indonesian: “Suðuroy”
- Irish: “Suðuroy”
- Italian: “Suðuroy”
- Japanese: “スヴロイ島”
- Korean: “수두로이섬”
- Latvian: “Sūroja”
- Lithuanian: “Suvurojus”
- Macedonian: “Сувурој”
- Macedonian: “Судурој”
- Northern Frisian: “Suðuroy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suderø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suduroy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suðuroy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suderø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suderoy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suduroy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sudurøy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suðuroy”
- Norwegian: “Suðuroy”
- Ossetian: “Сувурой”
- Ossetian: “Судурой”
- Ossetian: “Суури”
- Ossetian: “Суурой”
- Polish: “Suduroy”
- Polish: “Suðuroy”
- Polish: “Suthuroy”
- Portuguese: “Suðuroy”
- Romanian: “Suduroy”
- Romanian: “Suðuroy”
- Russian: “Сувурой”
- Russian: “Судурой”
- Russian: “Суури”
- Russian: “Суурой”
- Scots: “Suðuroy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Suðuroy”
- Serbian: “Suduroj”
- Serbian: “Судурој”
- Slovak: “Suðuroy”
- Slovenian: “Suduroy”
- Slovenian: “Suðuroy”
- Spanish: “Suduroy”
- Spanish: “Suðuroy”
- Swedish: “Suderö”
- Swedish: “Suduroy”
- Swedish: “Suðuroy”
- Swedish: “Syderö”
- Turkish: “Suduroy”
- Ukrainian: “Сувурой”
- Vietnamese: “Suduroy”
- Vietnamese: “Suðuroy”
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