Kópavogur

Kópavogur () is a town in Iceland that is the country's second-largest municipality by population.

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Kópavogur is a town in Iceland and the country's second-largest municipality by population. It is an important urban center in Iceland after the capital city of Reykjavik.

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Kópavogur
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: File:Kópavogur Smárinn.JPG
Settlement.imagesize: 250px
Settlement.image_caption: Skyline of Kópavogur
Settlement.shield_size: 85px
Settlement.image_map: Kópavogsbær Loc.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Kópavogur
Settlement.mapsize: 250px
Settlement.pushpin_map: Iceland
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Iceland
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Capital Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Constituency
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Southwest Constituency
Settlement.established_title: Established
Settlement.established_date: 1948

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Official website

Það er gott að búa í Kópavogi - Kópavogsbær

Opinber vefsíða Kópavogsbæjar. Hér finnur þú þjónustu bæjarins, fréttir, viðburði og upplýsingar um líf og búsetu í Kópavogi.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: city
Official name: Kópavogsbær
Country: Iceland
Population: 40040
Area: 110
Elevation: 8
Time zone: Greenwich Mean Time
Shares border with: Reykjavík
Official website: www.kopavogur.is
Image: Kópavogur Smárinn.JPG

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category of associated people: Category:People from Kópavogur
postal code: 203
Commons category: Kópavogur (city)
topic's main category: Category:Kópavogur
twinned administrative body: Sermersooq
category for people born here: Q18758098
owner of: Kópavogsvöllur
native label: Kópavogur
IPA transcription: [ˈkʰoːupavɔɣʏr̥]

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Kópavogur () is a town in Iceland that is the country's second-largest municipality by population.

It lies immediately south of Reykjavík and is part of the Capital Region. The name literally means seal pup inlet. The town seal contains the profile of the church Kópavogskirkja with a seal pup underneath.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kópavogur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.