Westfjords

The Westfjords are in the far northwest of , a sparsely populated, rugged territory intertwined by fjords.
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is a town in the northwest of . The oldest part of 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 .

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is a village with approximately 200 inhabitants on the Westfjords in West . The village is only a few minute drive from Isafjordur.

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is a small 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: “Batı Fiyortları Bölgesi”, “Ffiords y Gorllewin”, “Fiordy Zachodnie”, “Okcidentaj Fjordoj”, “Rhanbarth y Gorllewin”, “Rietumfjordu reģions”, “Västfjorderna”, “Västlandet”, “Vestfirdhir”, “Vestfjordane”, “West Fjords”, “Westfjorden”, “Zachodnie Fiordy”, “Западные Фьорды”, and “西部フィヨルド地方”
  • Neighbors:
  • Category: peninsula
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
65.6667° or 65° 40′ north
Longitude of center
-22.5° or 22° 30′ west
Population
7,120
Elevation
483 metres (1,585 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3426185
Wiki­data ID
Q727267
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Westfjords” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Fjordet Perëndimore”
  • Amharic: “ምዕራብ ፍዮርድ”
  • 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: “西峡湾区”
  • Chinese: “西峽灣區”
  • Czech: “Vestfirðir”
  • Danish: “Vestfirðir”
  • Dutch: “Vestfirðir”
  • Esperanto: “okcidenta fjordaro”
  • Esperanto: “Vestfirðir”
  • Estonian: “Vestfirðir”
  • Finnish: “Länsivuonot”
  • French: “Fjords de l’ouest”
  • French: “Fjords de l’Ouest”
  • French: “Vestfirðir”
  • Galician: “Vestfirðir”
  • Georgian: “ვესტფირდირი”
  • German: “Vestfirðir”
  • German: “Westfjorde”
  • Greek: “Δυτικά Φιόρδ”
  • Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમજોર્ડ્સ પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Yammacin Fjord”
  • Hebrew: “הפיורדים המערביים של איסלנד”
  • Hebrew: “וסטפירד’יר”
  • Hindi: “वेस्ट फ्योर्ड प्रदेश”
  • Hungarian: “Nyugati fjordok régió”
  • Icelandic: “Vestfirðir”
  • Ido: “Vestfirðir”
  • Indonesian: “Fyord Barat”
  • Indonesian: “Vestfirðir”
  • Irish: “Vestfirðir”
  • Italian: “Fiordi occidentali”
  • Italian: “Vestfirðir”
  • Japanese: “西部フィヨルド”
  • Javanese: “Fjord Kulon”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ಫಾರ್ಡ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Батыс фьордтары”
  • Kirghiz: “Батыш Фьорддору”
  • Korean: “베스트피르디르”
  • Latin: “Vestfirðir”
  • Latvian: “Rietumfjordi”
  • 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: “Vestfirðir”
  • Norwegian: “Vestfirðir”
  • Oromo: “Fjord Lixa”
  • Ossetian: “Ныгуылæнфьордтæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮੀ ਫਿਯੋਰਡ”
  • Persian: “وست‌فیردیر”
  • Persian: “وستفیوردز”
  • Polish: “Vestfirðir”
  • Portuguese: “Fiordes do Oeste”
  • Portuguese: “Fiordes Ocidentais”
  • Portuguese: “Vestfirðir”
  • Pushto: “وست فیردیر”
  • Russian: “Вестфирдир”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vestfirðir”
  • Serbian: “Вестфирдир (регион)”
  • Serbian: “Вестфирдир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vestfirðir”
  • Sinhala: “වෙස්ට්ෆ්ජෝර්ඩ්ස් පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Zahodni fjordi”
  • Somali: “Fjord Galbeed”
  • Spanish: “Fiordos occidentales”
  • Spanish: “Región de Vestfirðir”
  • Spanish: “Vestfirðir”
  • Swahili: “Fjord ya Magharibi”
  • Swedish: “Västfjordarna”
  • Tajik: “Фьордҳои Ғарб”
  • Tamil: “வெஸ்டபிஜோர்டஸ் பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Көнбатыш Фьордлары”
  • Telugu: “వెస్ట్‌ఫియార్డ్స్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “เวสท์ฟยอร์ด”
  • Turkish: “Batı Fiyortlar”
  • Turkish: “Vestfirðir”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестфірдір”
  • Urdu: “ویستفجوردس ریجن”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹ فجوردز”
  • Uzbek: “G’arbiy Fjordlar”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Westfjords”
  • Vlaams: “Vestfirðir”
  • Welsh: “Vestfirðir”
  • Wu Chinese: “西峡湾区”

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