Westfjords
The Westfjords are in the far northwest of Iceland, a sparsely populated, rugged territory intertwined by fjords.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ísafjörður and Súðavík.
Ísafjörður
Ísafjörður is a town in the northwest of Iceland. The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or eyri, in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord which meets the waters of the larger fjord Ísafjarðardjúp.
Súðavík
Súðavík is a village with approximately 200 inhabitants on the Westfjords in West Iceland. The village is only a few minute drive from Isafjordur.
Suðureyri
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Suðureyri is a small Icelandic fishing village perched on the tip of the 13 km-long Súgandafjörður in the Westfjords. The community was isolated for years by the huge mountains and rough road that led over them.
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Westfjords
- Type: region of Iceland with 7,120 residents
- Description: administrative district and large peninsula in northwestern Iceland
- Also known as: “Vestfirdir”, “Vestfirðir”, and “West Fjords”
- Neighbors: West Iceland
- Category: peninsula
- Location: Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Westfjords” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fjordet Perëndimore”
- Arabic: “إقليم المضايق”
- Armenian: “Վեստֆիրդիր”
- Azerbaijani: “Vestfirdir”
- Basque: “Vestfirðir”
- Belarusian: “Вестфірдзір”
- Bengali: “ওয়েস্টফোর্ডস অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Vestfirðir”
- Bulgarian: “Северозападен полуостров”
- Catalan: “Vestfirðir”
- Cebuano: “Vestfirðir (rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Vestfirðir”
- Chinese: “Vestfirðir”
- Chinese: “西峡湾区”
- Chinese: “西峽灣區”
- Czech: “Vestfirðir”
- Danish: “Vestfirðir”
- Dutch: “Vestfirdhir”
- Dutch: “Vestfirdir”
- Dutch: “Vestfirðir”
- Dutch: “Westfjorden”
- Esperanto: “okcidenta fjordaro”
- Esperanto: “Okcidentaj Fjordoj”
- Esperanto: “Vestfirðir”
- Estonian: “Vestfirðir”
- Finnish: “Länsivuonot”
- Finnish: “Vestfirðir”
- French: “Fjords de l’ouest”
- French: “Fjords de l’Ouest”
- French: “Vestfirdir”
- French: “Vestfirðir”
- Galician: “Vestfirðir”
- Georgian: “ვესტფირდირი”
- German: “Vestfirdir”
- German: “Vestfirðir”
- German: “Westfjorde”
- Greek: “Δυτικά Φιόρδ”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમજોર્ડ્સ પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “הפיורדים המערביים של איסלנד”
- Hebrew: “וסטפירד’יר”
- Hindi: “वेस्ट फ्योर्ड प्रदेश”
- Hungarian: “Nyugati fjordok régió”
- Hungarian: “Vestfirðir”
- Icelandic: “Vestfirðir”
- Ido: “Vestfirðir”
- Indonesian: “Fyord Barat”
- Indonesian: “Vestfirðir”
- Irish: “Vestfirðir”
- Italian: “Fiordi occidentali”
- Italian: “Vestfirdir”
- Italian: “Vestfirðir”
- Japanese: “西部フィヨルド”
- Japanese: “西部フィヨルド地方”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ಫಾರ್ಡ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “베스트피르디르”
- Latin: “Vestfirðir”
- Latvian: “Rietumfjordi”
- Latvian: “Rietumfjordu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Vestfirdiras”
- Low German: “Vestfirðir”
- Macedonian: “Западни Фјордови”
- Malay: “Westfjords Region”
- Marathi: “वेस्टफॉर्दज प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vestfirðir”
- Moksha: “Вэстфирдир”
- Northern Frisian: “Vestfirðir”
- Northern Sami: “Vestfirðir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestfirðir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestfirdir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestfirðir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestfjordane”
- Norwegian: “Vestfirðir”
- Ossetian: “Вестфирдир”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæнфьордтæ”
- Persian: “وستفیردیر”
- Persian: “وستفیوردز”
- Polish: “Fiordy Zachodnie”
- Polish: “Vestfirdir”
- Polish: “Vestfirðir”
- Polish: “Zachodnie Fiordy”
- Portuguese: “Fiordes do Oeste”
- Portuguese: “Fiordes Ocidentais”
- Portuguese: “Vestfirðir”
- Pushto: “وست فیردیر”
- Russian: “Вестфирдир”
- Russian: “Западные Фьорды”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vestfirðir”
- Serbian: “Вестфирдир (регион)”
- Serbian: “Вестфирдир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vestfirðir”
- Sinhala: “වෙස්ට්ෆ්ජෝර්ඩ්ස් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Vestfirðir”
- Slovenian: “Zahodni fjordi”
- Spanish: “Fiordos occidentales”
- Spanish: “Región de Vestfirðir”
- Spanish: “Vestfirdir”
- Spanish: “Vestfirðir”
- Swedish: “Västfjordarna”
- Swedish: “Västfjorderna”
- Swedish: “Västlandet”
- Swedish: “Vestfirðir”
- Tamil: “வெஸ்டபிஜோர்டஸ் பகுதி”
- Telugu: “వెస్ట్ఫియార్డ్స్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เวสท์ฟยอร์ด”
- Turkish: “Batı Fiyortlar”
- Turkish: “Batı Fiyortları Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Vestfirðir”
- Ukrainian: “Вестфірдір”
- Urdu: “ویستفجوردس ریجن”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Westfjords”
- Vlaams: “Vestfirðir”
- Welsh: “Ffiords y Gorllewin”
- Welsh: “Rhanbarth y Gorllewin”
- Welsh: “Vestfirðir”
- Wu Chinese: “西峡湾区”
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