Sveitarfélagið Árborg
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Sveitarfélagið Árborg () is a municipality in southern Iceland. It is the most populous in the region, with a population of 11,565 in 2024. Founded in 1998, its largest town is Selfoss. Eyrarbakki and Stokkseyri are two communities on the southern coast and Sandvíkurhreppur is a rural administrative region between those three other towns.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sveitarfélagið Árborg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Selfoss 0722.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View over Selfoss, looking over Ölfusá river.
- Settlement.image_map
- Arborg.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Sveitarfélagið Árborg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southern Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- South Constituency
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Manager
- Settlement.leader_name1
- Ásta Stefánsdóttir
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 157
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Iceland
- Official name
- Árborg
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Southern Region
- Population
- 12064
- Area
- 157
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.arborg.is
- Image
- Selfoss 0722.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sveitarfélagið Árborg
- postal code
- 820
- twinned administrative body
- Kalmar Municipality
- native label
- Árborg
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Twin towns — sister cities
- See also
- References
Sveitarfélagið Árborg () is a municipality in southern Iceland. It is the most populous in the region, with a population of 11,565 in 2024. Founded in 1998, its largest town is Selfoss. Eyrarbakki and Stokkseyri are two communities on the southern coast and Sandvíkurhreppur is a rural administrative region between those three other towns.
The area was represented in the fifth episode of the first season of the parody TV series Documentary Now! as the host of an Al Capone Festival.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sveitarfélagið Árborg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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