Hvalfjarðarsveit
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Hvalfjarðarsveit () is a municipality in Vesturland, Iceland. The municipality derives its name from the fjord Hvalfjörður, which forms its southern border.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hvalfjarðarsveit
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Hvalfjordur_pa_Island.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Hvalfjörður
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100px
- Settlement.image_map
- Hvalfjarðarsveit Loc.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Hvalfjarðarsveit
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Western Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Northwest Constituency
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1 June 2006
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Iceland
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Western Region
- Population
- 760
- Area
- 479
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Kjósarhreppur
- Official website
- www.hvalfjardarsveit.is
- Image
- Hvalfjordur pa Island.jpg
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- inception
- 2004-11-20
- Commons category
- Hvalfjarðarsveit
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
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Hvalfjarðarsveit () is a municipality in Vesturland, Iceland. The municipality derives its name from the fjord Hvalfjörður, which forms its southern border.
The municipality formed on 1 June 2006, by the union of the former municipalities of Hvalfjarðarstrandarhreppur, Innri-Akraneshreppur, Leirár- og Melahreppur and Skilmannahreppur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hvalfjarðarsveit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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