Vágar
Vágar is an island in the Faroe Islands, the island is also called Vága in combination with other words.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: island with 2,970 residents
- Description: island in the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Vaga Sysla”, “Vága Sýsla”, “Vagar”, and “Vágar region”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vágar Airport and Vørðufelli.
Vágar Airport
Aerodrome
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Vágar Airport is the only airport in the Faroe Islands, and is located 1 NM east of the village of Sørvágur, on the island of Vágar and 46 km west of the capital Tórshavn. It is the main operating base for Faroese flag carrier Atlantic Airways.
Vørðufelli
Peak
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Vørðufelli is a mountain overlooking the village of Sørvágur on the Faroe Islands. Its height is 284 metres above sea level. It is situated between Húsadalur, Vága, Vatnsdalur, and close to Klovin.
Sørvágsvatn
Lake
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Leitisvatn, sometimes called Sørvágsvatn, is the largest lake in the Faroe Islands. It is situated on the island of Vágar, between the municipalities of Sørvágur and Vágar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sørvágur and Miðvágur.
Sørvágur
Village
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Sørvágur is a village on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands. It is located at the landward end of Sørvágsfjørður. Sørvágur is the largest village in Sørvágur Municipality.
Miðvágur
Village
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Miðvágur, is a village in the Faroe Islands on Vágar. It has been a municipality until 1 January 2009 when it fused with Sandavágur into Vága kommuna. Located on the south coast of the island of Vágar, Miðvágur is the largest town on this Faroese island.
Vatnsoyrar
Village
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Vatnsoyrar is a village founded in 1921 in the middle of the Faroese island of Vagar. Vatnsoyrar, being created in 1921, is one of the youngest settlements in the Faroes.
Vágar
- Location: Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Vágar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فاآر”
- Arabic: “فاغار”
- Armenian: “Վագար”
- Azerbaijani: “Boar adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Voar adası”
- Basque: “Vágar”
- Belarusian: “Вагар”
- Belarusian: “Воар”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Вагар”
- Catalan: “Vágar”
- Chinese: “沃格岛”
- Chinese: “沃格島”
- Czech: “Vágar”
- Danish: “Vagar”
- Danish: “Vágar”
- Danish: “Vågø Syssel”
- Danish: “Vågø”
- Danish: “Vágoy”
- Dutch: “Vagar”
- Dutch: “Vágar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤاجار”
- Esperanto: “Vágar”
- Faroese: “Vága sýsla”
- Faroese: “Vágar”
- Faroese: “Vágoy”
- Finnish: “Vagar”
- Finnish: “Vágar”
- French: “Vagar”
- French: “Vágar”
- German: “Vagar”
- German: “Vágar”
- German: “Vago”
- German: “Vagø”
- German: “Vågo”
- German: “Vågø”
- German: “Vagoy”
- German: “Vágoy”
- Greek: “Βάγκαρ”
- Hebrew: “ואגאר”
- Hebrew: “ואוגר”
- Hungarian: “Vágar”
- Icelandic: “Vágar”
- Icelandic: “Vogar”
- Icelandic: “Vogey”
- Indonesian: “Vágar”
- Irish: “Vágar”
- Italian: “Vagar”
- Italian: “Vágar”
- Italian: “Vágoy”
- Japanese: “ヴォーアル島”
- Korean: “보가르섬”
- Latvian: “Voara”
- Lithuanian: “Vagaras”
- Macedonian: “Воар”
- Northern Frisian: “Vágar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vágar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vágoy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vágar”
- Norwegian: “Vágar”
- Ossetian: “Вагар”
- Ossetian: “Воар”
- Persian: “واگار”
- Polish: “Vagar”
- Polish: “Vágar”
- Polish: “Vågø”
- Polish: “Vagoy”
- Polish: “Vágoy”
- Portuguese: “Vaago”
- Portuguese: “Vaagø”
- Portuguese: “Vágar”
- Portuguese: “Vågø”
- Romanian: “Vagar”
- Romanian: “Vágar”
- Russian: “Вагар”
- Russian: “Воар”
- Scots: “Vágar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vágar”
- Serbian: “Vagar”
- Serbian: “Вагар”
- Silesian: “Vágar”
- Slovak: “Vágar”
- Slovenian: “Vágar”
- Spanish: “Vagar”
- Spanish: “Vágar”
- Spanish: “Vagoy”
- Spanish: “Vágoy”
- Swedish: “Vágar”
- Turkish: “Vágar”
- Ukrainian: “Воар”
- Vietnamese: “Vágar”
- Western Frisian: “Vágar”
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