West Iceland
Western Region is one of the traditional eight regions of Iceland, located on the western coast of the island. As of 2024, the region has a population of 17,419.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Borgarnes and Stykkishólmur.
Borgarnes
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Borgarnes is a town in West Iceland about 75 km north of Reykjavík, with a population of around 2000. It stands by a fjord called Borgarfjörður and is the centre of a vast municipality, Borgarbyggð.
Stykkishólmur
Stykkishólmur is a town in West Iceland, on the north coast of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. It is often called "the gateway to the islands" of Breiðafjörður. The population is a little over 1,200.
Hellissandur
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Hellissandur is a village on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in West Iceland. The village is considered one of the first fishing villages on Iceland, existing already in the 16th century, when people elsewhere mostly lived on agriculture.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Snæfellsjökull National Park.
Snæfellsjökull National Park
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Snæfellsjökull National Park is a national park located on the tip of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in West Iceland. The park is home to the ice-covered volcanic crater that was the setting for Jules Verne's book Journey to the Center of the Earth.
West Iceland
- Type: region of Iceland with 16,700 residents
- Description: region in Iceland
- Also known as: “Vesturland”, “West”, and “Western Region”
- Neighbors: South Iceland and Westfjords
- Location: Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“West Iceland” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Rajoni Perëndimor”
- Arabic: “الإقليم الغربي”
- Armenian: “Վեստուրլանդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Vesturland”
- Basque: “Vesturland”
- Belarusian: “Вестурланд”
- Belarusian: “Вэстурлянд”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя вобласьць”
- Bengali: “ওয়স্টার্ন অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Vesturland”
- Bulgarian: “Вестюрланд”
- Catalan: “Vesturland”
- Cebuano: “Vesturland”
- Chinese: “Vesturland”
- Chinese: “西部区”
- Chinese: “西部區”
- Czech: “Vesturland”
- Czech: “Západní region”
- Danish: “Vesturland”
- Dutch: “Vesturland”
- Esperanto: “okcidenta lando”
- Esperanto: “Vesturland”
- Estonian: “Vesturland”
- Faroese: “Vesturland”
- Finnish: “Vesturland”
- French: “Ouest”
- French: “Vesturland”
- Galician: “Vesturland”
- Georgian: “ვესტურლანდი”
- Georgian: “ვესტურლენდი”
- German: “Vesturland”
- Greek: “Δυτική Ισλανδία”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમી પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “וסטורלנד”
- Hebrew: “מערב איסלנד”
- Hindi: “पश्चिमी क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Nyugati régió (Izland)”
- Hungarian: “Nyugati régió”
- Icelandic: “Vesturland”
- Indonesian: “Region Barat”
- Indonesian: “Vesturland”
- Irish: “Vesturland”
- Italian: “Islanda occidentale”
- Italian: “Ovest”
- Italian: “Vesturland”
- Japanese: “アイスランド西部地方”
- Japanese: “ウェスタン州”
- Japanese: “西アイスランド”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಶ್ಚಾತ್ಯ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “베스튀를란드”
- Korean: “서부 주”
- Latin: “Vesturland”
- Latvian: “Rietumu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Vesturlandas”
- Lithuanian: “Vesturlando regionas”
- Low German: “Vesturland”
- Macedonian: “Западен регион”
- Macedonian: “Западен Регион”
- Malay: “Western Region”
- Marathi: “पश्चिम प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vesturland”
- Moksha: “Вэстурланд”
- Northern Frisian: “Vesturland”
- Northern Sami: “Vesturland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vesturland”
- Norwegian: “Vesturland”
- Persian: “منطقه غربی ایسلند”
- Persian: “وستورلاند”
- Polish: “Okręg Zachodni”
- Polish: “Vesturland”
- Portuguese: “Oeste”
- Portuguese: “Região Oeste”
- Portuguese: “Vesturland”
- Pushto: “وستورلنډ”
- Romanian: “Vesturland”
- Russian: “Вестюрланд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vesturland”
- Serbian: “Vestirtland”
- Serbian: “Вестиртланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vesturland”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “Vesturland”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna regija”
- Spanish: “Occidental”
- Spanish: “Región Vesturland”
- Spanish: “Vesturland”
- Swedish: “Västlandet”
- Swedish: “Västra”
- Swedish: “Vesturland”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு பகுதி”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เวอเตอร์แลนด์”
- Turkish: “Batı Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Batı İzlanda”
- Turkish: “Vesturland”
- Ukrainian: “Вестурланд”
- Urdu: “مغربی ریجن”
- Urdu: “مغربی علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Phía Tây”
- Welsh: “Rhanbarth y Gorllewin”
- Welsh: “Vesturland”
- Wu Chinese: “西部区 (冰岛)”
- Wu Chinese: “西部区（冰岛）”
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