Tórshavn
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 14,100 residents
- Description: capital of the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Havn”, “Thorshavn”, and “Torshavn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Library of the Faroe Islands and Tórsvøllur.
National Library of the Faroe Islands
Library
Photo: Maciej Brencz, CC BY 2.0.
The National Library of the Faroe Islands is the national library for the Faroe Islands, a self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark. It is both a public and a research library.
Tórsvøllur
Pitch
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tórsvøllur is a football stadium on the sport site of Gundadalur in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. The stadium holds 6,500 people, and was built in 1999 to become the country's national stadium to provide an artificial grass surface on which international football matches could be played.
Nordic House in the Faroe Islands
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5 dk.
The Nordic House is a cultural institution in the Faroe Islands. Its aim is to support and promote Nordic and Faroese culture, locally and in the Nordic region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hoyvík and Argir.
Hoyvík
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Argir
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Argir is a village in the Faroe Islands. Argir most likely takes its name from Old Irish airge, which means summer pasture; several placenames in Faroe carry the same name with this meaning.
Tinganes
Quarter
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tinganes is the historic location of the Faroese landsstýri, and is a part of Tórshavn. The name means "parliament jetty" or "parliament point" in Faroese.
Tórshavn
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Tórshavn Municipality, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.0101° or 62° 0′ 37″ northLongitude
-6.7716° or 6° 46′ 18″ westPopulation
14,100Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
FO THOOpen location code
9CJM266H+39OpenStreetMap ID
node 29023813OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tórshavn” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tórshavn”
- Albanian: “Tórshavn”
- Arabic: “تورسهافن”
- Arabic: “توشهافن”
- Aragonese: “Tórshavn”
- Armenian: “Տորսհավն”
- Asturian: “Thorshavn”
- Asturian: “Tórsḥavn”
- Azerbaijani: “Torshavn”
- Basque: “Tórshavn”
- Bavarian: “Tórshavn”
- Belarusian: “Торсгаўн”
- Belarusian: “Торсхаўн”
- Bosnian: “Tórshavn”
- Breton: “Tórshavn”
- Bulgarian: “Торсхавн”
- Catalan: “Tórshavn”
- Central Kurdish: “تۆرشاون”
- Chechen: “Торсхавн”
- Chinese: “Tórshavn”
- Chinese: “托尔斯港”
- Chinese: “托爾斯港”
- Chinese: “雷神港”
- Cornish: “Tórshavn”
- Croatian: “Torshavn”
- Croatian: “Tórshavn”
- Czech: “Tórshavn”
- Danish: “Thorshavn”
- Danish: “Tórshavn”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tórshavn”
- Dutch: “Tórshavn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توشهافن”
- Esperanto: “Thorshavn”
- Esperanto: “Torhaveno”
- Esperanto: “Torŝavno”
- Esperanto: “Torshavn”
- Esperanto: “Tórshavn”
- Estonian: “Tórshavn”
- Ewe: “Tórshavn”
- Faroese: “Tórshavn”
- Finnish: “Thorshavn”
- Finnish: “Torshavn”
- Finnish: “Tórshavn”
- French: “Torshavn”
- French: “Tórshavn”
- Galician: “Tórshavn”
- Georgian: “ტორსჰავნი”
- German: “Thorshaven”
- German: “Thorshavn”
- German: “Torshavn”
- German: “Tórshavn”
- Greek: “Tórshavn”
- Greek: “Τόρσχαβν”
- Hebrew: “טורסהאבן”
- Hungarian: “Thorshavn”
- Hungarian: “Tórshavn”
- Icelandic: “Þórshöfn”
- Ido: “Tórshavn”
- Indonesian: “Torshavn”
- Indonesian: “Tórshavn”
- Interlingua: “Tórshavn”
- Interlingue: “Tórshavn”
- Irish: “Tórshavn”
- Italian: “Tórshavn”
- Japanese: “トースハウン”
- Kalaallisut: “Tórshavn”
- Kazakh: “Торшгавн”
- Komi: “Торшхавн”
- Korean: “토르스하운”
- Latin: “Thori Portus”
- Latvian: “Touršhavna”
- Ligurian: “Torshavn”
- Ligurian: “Tórshavn”
- Lithuanian: “Torshaunas”
- Lombard: “Tórshavn”
- Low German: “Thorshoaven”
- Low German: “Tórshavn”
- Macedonian: “Торсхавн”
- Malagasy: “Tórshavn”
- Maltese: “Tórshavn”
- Manx: “Thorshavn”
- Manx: “Torshavn”
- Manx: “Tórshavn”
- Maori: “Tórshavn”
- Mazanderani: “توشهاون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tórshavn”
- Moksha: “Торсгавн”
- Northern Frisian: “Tórshavn”
- Northern Sami: “Tórshavn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tórshavn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tórshavn”
- Norwegian: “Tórshavn”
- Novial: “Tórshavn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tórshavn”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þunreshæfen”
- Ossetian: “Торсхавн”
- Panjabi: “ਥੋਸ਼ਾਊਨ”
- Papiamento: “Tórshavn”
- Persian: “توشهاون”
- Piemontese: “Tórshavn”
- Polish: “Thorshavn”
- Polish: “Tórshavn”
- Portuguese: “Thorshavn”
- Portuguese: “Torshavn”
- Portuguese: “Tórshavn”
- Romanian: “Thorshavn”
- Romanian: “Torshavn”
- Romanian: “Tórshavn”
- Russian: “Торсхавн”
- Rusyn: “Торсгавн”
- Sardinian: “Tórshavn”
- Saterfriesisch: “Tórshavn”
- Scots: “Tórshavn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tórshavn”
- Serbian: “Торсхавн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tórshavn”
- Silesian: “Tórshavn”
- Slovak: “Tórshavn”
- Slovenian: “Tórshavn”
- Spanish: “Torshavn”
- Spanish: “Tórshavn”
- Swedish: “Torshamn”
- Swedish: “Torshavn”
- Swedish: “Tórshavn”
- Tamil: “டோர்சான்”
- Tatar: “Торсһавн”
- Thai: “ทอร์เชาน์”
- Thai: “ทอร์สเฮาน์”
- Turkish: “Tórshavn”
- Udmurt: “Торсхавн”
- Ukrainian: “Торсгавн”
- Urdu: “تورشھاون”
- Vietnamese: “Tórshavn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tórshavn”
- Welsh: “Tórshavn”
- Western Frisian: “Tórshavn”
- Wu Chinese: “托尔斯港”
- Xhosa: “Torshavn”
- Yoruba: “Tórshavn”
- Yue Chinese: “雷神港”
- Zulu: “i-Tórshavn”
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