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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Borgarnes and Stykkishólmur.
Stykkishólmur
Stykkishólmur is a town in West Iceland, on the north coast of the Snæfellsnes peninsula.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Snæfellsjökull National Park and Arnarstapi.
West Iceland
- Type: region of Iceland with 16,700 residents
- Description: region in Iceland
- Also known as: “Batı İzlanda”, “okcidenta lando”, “Vesturlando regionas”, “West”, “Western Region”, “Západní region”, “Заходняя вобласьць”, “ვესტურლენდი”, “مغربی ریجن”, “서부 주”, “アイスランド西部地方”, and “ウェスタン州”
- Neighbors: South Iceland and Westfjords
- Location: Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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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)
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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”
- Bengali: “ওয়স্টার্ন অঞ্চল”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম”
- Breton: “Vesturland”
- Bulgarian: “Вестюрланд”
- Catalan: “Vesturland”
- Cebuano: “Vesturland”
- Chinese: “西部区”
- Chinese: “西部區”
- Czech: “Vesturland”
- Danish: “Vesturland”
- Dutch: “Vesturland”
- Esperanto: “Vesturland”
- Estonian: “Vesturland”
- Faroese: “Vesturland”
- Finnish: “Vesturland”
- French: “Ouest”
- French: “Vesturland”
- Galician: “Vesturland”
- Georgian: “ვესტურლანდი”
- 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: “西”
- Japanese: “西アイスランド”
- Javanese: “Kulon”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಶ್ಚಾತ್ಯ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Батыс”
- Kirghiz: “Батыш”
- Korean: “베스튀를란드”
- Latin: “Vesturland”
- Latvian: “Rietumu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Vesturlandas”
- 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: “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”
- Ukrainian: “Вестурланд”
- Urdu: “مغربی علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “G’arbiy”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Phía Tây”
- Welsh: “Rhanbarth y Gorllewin”
- Wu Chinese: “西部区 (冰岛)”
- Wu Chinese: “西部区（冰岛）”
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