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Fjarðabyggð
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Key facts
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- 85px
- Settlement.name
- Fjarðabyggð
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- Municipality
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- Icelandic Landscape near Neskaupstaður July 2014.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
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- Skyline of Fjarðabyggð
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- Fjarðabyggð Loc.svg
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- Location of Fjarðabyggð
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- 250px
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- Iceland
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Iceland
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- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Eastern Region
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- Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Northeast Constituency
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- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jóna Árný Þórðardottir
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Iceland
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Eastern Region
- Capital
- Reyðarfjörður
- Official language
- Icelandic
- Population
- 5247
- Area
- 1615
- Body of water
- Norwegian Sea
- Shares border with
- Múlaþing
- Official website
- www.fjardabyggd.is
- Image
- Reiðarfjörður04.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fjarðabyggð
- twinned administrative body
- Enköping Municipality
- inception
- 1998-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Twin towns – sister cities
- References
- External links
Fjarðabyggð () is a municipality located in eastern Iceland, in the Eastern Region.
==History== The municipality was formed in 1998 with the union of the former municipalities of Eskifjörður, Neskaupstaður and Reyðarfjörður. Austurbyggð, Fáskrúðsfjarðarhreppur and Mjóafjarðarhreppur were merged into Fjarðabyggð in 2006, and Breiðdalshreppur merged in 2018.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fjarðabyggð” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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