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Garðabær () is a town and municipality in the Capital Region of Iceland.

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Garðabær is a city in Iceland, situated in the Capital Region. Established in 1878, the municipality covers an area of 46 square kilometers. It has a population of 20,116 and uses the postal code 210. The city is located in the UTC±00:00 time zone and is twinned with Asker, Jakobstad, Eslöv Municipality, and Tórshavn.

The terrain features an elevation of 19 meters according to one source, while another records it at 41 meters. Garðabær is part of the Höfuðborgarsvæðið region. Its official website is gardabaer.is.

Synthesized by Vinony from 47 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Meteo, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Firecrawl, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Place details

Locality
Garðabær
Region
Capital Region
Country
Ísland
Population
11,421
Timezone
Atlantic/Reykjavik

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Air quality

23US AQIGood
PM2.5
4.5 µg/m³
PM10
6.2 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-11 00:00 · Open-Meteo

Key facts

Settlement.name
Garðabær
Settlement.settlement_type
Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline
Garðakirkja.jpg
Settlement.imagesize
250px
Settlement.image_caption
Garðakirkja in Garðabær, Iceland
Settlement.shield_size
100px
Settlement.image_map
Garðabær Loc.svg
Settlement.map_caption
Location of Garðabær
Settlement.mapsize
250px
Settlement.pushpin_map
Iceland
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Iceland
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Capital Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Constituency
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Southwest Constituency
Settlement.established_title
Established
Settlement.established_date
1878

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

Velkomin á vef Garðabæjar - Garðabær

Við leggjum áherslu á að veita framúrskarandi þjónustu. Vefur Garðabæjar gegnir lykilhlutverki í upplýsingagjöf til íbúa.

gardabaer.is

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Facilities
  • Education
  • Sports
  • Notable people
  • Music
  • Surroundings
  • Bessastaðahreppur
  • International Cities of Friendship
  • Nature
  • The [[Bessastaðir]] manor farm
  • Twin towns – sister cities
  • References

Garðabær () is a town and municipality in the Capital Region of Iceland.

==History== Garðabær is a growing town in the Capital Region. It is the fifth largest municipality in Iceland with a population of 20,116 (1 January 2025).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garðabær” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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