Múlaþing
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Múlaþing () is a municipality in eastern Iceland which was formed in 2020 from the merger of Fljótsdalshérað, Seyðisfjörður, Borgarfjarðarhreppur and Djúpavogshreppur.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Múlaþing
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.shield_size
- 85px
- Settlement.image_map
- Múlaþing Loc.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Múlaþing
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Eastern
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Northeast
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 2020
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Björn Ingimarsson
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Iceland
- Official name
- Múlaþing
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Eastern Region
- Population
- 5232
- Area
- 10671
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Fjarðabyggð
- Official website
- www.mulathing.is
- Image
- Tramonto a Egilsstadir (9468892258).jpg
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- Commons category
- Múlaþing
- replaces
- Borgarfjarðarhreppur
- inception
- 2020-00-00
- native label
- Múlaþing
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Múlaþing () is a municipality in eastern Iceland which was formed in 2020 from the merger of Fljótsdalshérað, Seyðisfjörður, Borgarfjarðarhreppur and Djúpavogshreppur.
It is the second largest municipality in the country by area (the largest being Þingeyjarsveit). The biggest town in the municipality is Egilsstaðir, with a population of around 2,500. The second largest town of Seyðisfjörður is one of the oldest towns in Iceland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Múlaþing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.