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Neskaupstaður

Northern Europe

Neskaupstadur is a town on the fjord Nordfjordur on the eastern side of Iceland, facing the Norwegian Sea, and forms part of the municipality of Fjardabyggd. As of 2016 it had a population of 1,481, making it the second largest town in the Eastern Region. The town grew from a farm called Nes, originally settled by Egill Raudi.

Facts
Population
1469 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Polar 3
Time Zone
UTC+00:00 4
Sources
1. Wikidata: Neskaupstadur
Wikidata Q176728, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Neskaupstaður coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevation
Quote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 67.0 ]
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 65.25, -13.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 65.25, -13.75
65.25 -13.75 ET
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4. GeoNames: Neskaupstaður - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2628020, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 2628020, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
65.14819 -13.68368 P PPL IS 38 7300 1481 1 Atlantic/Reykjavik
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Neskaupstadur (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Northern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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