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.
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 harbou ...
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.
Twin towns — sister cities
Árborg is
twinned with:
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Arendal, Norway
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Kalmar
Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...
, 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 Mikke ...
, Finland
See also
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Municipalities of Iceland
The municipalities of Iceland ( is, Sveitarfélög ) are local administrative areas in Iceland that provide a number of services to their inhabitants such as kindergartens, elementary schools, waste management, social services, public housing, pu ...
References
Municipalities of Iceland
Selfoss
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