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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Borgarnes and Stykkishólmur.

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is a town in West Iceland about 75 km north of , with a population of around 2000. It stands by a fjord called Borgarfjörður and is the centre of a vast municipality, Borgarbyggð.

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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.

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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 and Arnarstapi.

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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.

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, often called Stapi, is a small fishing and tourism village on the southern coast of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in West Iceland. It lies beneath the distinctive mountain Stapafell, close to , and is best known for its basalt sea cliffs, natural rock arches, seabird colonies and coastal walking trail to Hellnar.

West Iceland

Latitude of center
64.75° or 64° 45′ north
Longitude of center
-21.8333° or 21° 50′ west
Population
16,700
Elevation
227 metres (745 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3426184
Wiki­data ID
Q221791
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“West Iceland” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Rajoni Perëndimor”
  • Amharic: “ምዕራብ”
  • Arabic: “الإقليم الغربي”
  • Armenian: “Վեստուրլանդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qərb”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vesturland”
  • Basque: “Vesturland”
  • Belarusian: “Вестурланд”
  • Belarusian: “Вэстурлянд”
  • Belarusian: “Заходняя вобласьць”
  • Bengali: “ওয়স্টার্ন অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “পশ্চিম”
  • 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”
  • German: “Westen”
  • Greek: “Δυτική Ισλανδία”
  • Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમી પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Yamma”
  • 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”
  • Japanese: “西アイスランド”
  • Javanese: “Kulon”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಶ್ಚಾತ್ಯ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Батыс”
  • Kirghiz: “Батыш”
  • 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: “Barat”
  • Malay: “Western Region”
  • Marathi: “पश्चिम प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vesturland”
  • Moksha: “Вэстурланд”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vesturland”
  • Northern Sami: “Vesturland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vesturland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vesturland”
  • Norwegian: “Vesturland”
  • Oromo: “Lixa”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮ”
  • Persian: “غرب”
  • Persian: “منطقه غربی ایسلند”
  • Persian: “وستورلاند”
  • Polish: “Okręg Zachodni”
  • Polish: “Vesturland”
  • Portuguese: “Oeste”
  • Portuguese: “Região Oeste”
  • Portuguese: “Vesturland”
  • Pushto: “لوېديز”
  • Pushto: “وستورلنډ”
  • Romanian: “Vesturland”
  • Russian: “Вестюрланд”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vesturland”
  • Serbian: “Vestirtland”
  • Serbian: “Вестиртланд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vesturland”
  • Sinhala: “බටහිර කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Vesturland”
  • Slovenian: “Zahodna regija”
  • Somali: “Galbeed”
  • Spanish: “Occidental”
  • Spanish: “Región Vesturland”
  • Spanish: “Vesturland”
  • Swahili: “Magharibi”
  • Swedish: “Västlandet”
  • Swedish: “Västra”
  • Swedish: “Vesturland”
  • Tajik: “Ғарб”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Көнбатыш”
  • Telugu: “పశ్చిమ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “เวอเตอร์แลนด์”
  • Turkish: “Batı Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Batı İzlanda”
  • Turkish: “Vesturland”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестурланд”
  • Urdu: “مغربی ریجن”
  • Urdu: “مغربی علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “G’arbiy”
  • 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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