Sveitarfélag ið Árborg () is the biggest municipality in southern
Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...
founded in 1998. The biggest town in the municipality is
Selfoss Selfoss may refer to:
*Selfoss (town), Iceland
*UMF Selfoss, a football club based in Selfoss
**Selfoss men's football
**Selfoss women's football
*Selfoss (waterfall), Iceland
*Selfoss Airport
Selfoss Airport is an airport serving Selfoss, a to ...
.
Eyrarbakki
Eyrarbakki () is a fishing village on the south coast of Iceland with a population of about 570 people, not including inhabitants of the prison located there. The village is founded on the Great Þjórsá Lava.
History
For centuries, the harbour ...
and
Stokkseyri
Stokkseyri () is a small town in Southern Iceland, with a population of around 445.
Overview
Founded around 900 AD by the settler Hásteinn Atlason, it was an important fishing and trading village in previous times.
The town is founded on the Gr ...
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!
''Documentary Now!'' is an American mockumentary television series, created by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas, that premiered on August 20, 2015, on IFC. Armisen and Hader star in many episodes, and Thomas and Alex Buono ...
as the host of an Al Capone Festival.
Twin towns — sister cities
Árborg is
twinned with:
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Arendal
Arendal () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the Districts of Norway, region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the munici ...
, Norway
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Kalmar, Sweden
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Savonlinna
Savonlinna (, , ; sv, Nyslott, lit=New Castle) is a town and a municipality of inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region, which is why the city is also nicknamed the "Capital of Saimaa". Together with Mikkel ...
, Finland
See also
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Municipalities of Iceland
References
Municipalities of Iceland
Selfoss
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