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Hvalba
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Hvalba () is a village and a municipality in the Faroe Islands, which consists of Hvalba, Nes-Hvalba and Sandvík.
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Place details
- Locality
- Hvalba
- Region
- Suðuroy
- Country
- Føroyar
- Population
- 673
- Timezone
- Atlantic/Faroe
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.image_caption
- Hvalba, looking towards Lítla Dímun island
- Settlement.image_map
- Map-position-hvalbiar-kommuna-2005.png
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Hvalbiar kommuna in the Faroe Islands
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Faroe Islands
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Hvalba village in the Faroe Islands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Island
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Suðuroy
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Janus Thomsen
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_blank1_title
- Municipality
- Settlement.area_blank1_km2
- 16.83
- Settlement.area_blank2_title
- Village
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Hvalba
- Country
- Faroe Islands
- Located in
- Hvalba
- Population
- 599
- Time zone
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Capital of
- Hvalba
- Official website
- www.hvalba.fo
- Image
- Hvalba Football Field A Skorinum.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Population
- Connected by tunnels
- Hvalbiareiði and Norðbergseiði
- Tourism
- Coal Mines
- Pirates and "Turkargravir"
- Sports
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Hvalba () is a village and a municipality in the Faroe Islands, which consists of Hvalba, Nes-Hvalba and Sandvík.
The village spreads around the bottom of a deep inlet, Hvalbiarfjørður, in the northeast of Suðuroy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hvalba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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