Leirvík
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Leirvík is a town on the Faroe Islands and was an important regional ferry harbour at the east coast of the second-largest island Eysturoy.
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It is catalogued under topics including Commons link from Wikidata, Populated places established in the 9th century and Populated places in the Faroe Islands.
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Place details
- Locality
- Leirvík
- Region
- Eysturoy
- Country
- Føroyar
- Population
- 1,048
- Timezone
- Atlantic/Faroe
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Leirvík
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Leirvík, Faroe Islands.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Leirvík in May 2002
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Faroe Islands
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the Faroe Islands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Island
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Eysturoy
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Eysturkommuna
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- September 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 1061
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Faroe Islands
- Located in
- Eystur Municipality
- Population
- 971
- Image
- Leirvík, Faroe Islands.JPG
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- Commons category
- Leirvík
- twinned administrative body
- Falkenberg Municipality
- Commons gallery
- Leirvík
- located in/on physical feature
- Eysturoy
- streaming media URL
- balticlivecam.com/cameras/denmark/faroe-islands/leirvik
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
Leirvík is a town on the Faroe Islands and was an important regional ferry harbour at the east coast of the second-largest island Eysturoy.
It was the only town in the municipality of Leirvík (Leirvíkar kommuna), however on 1 January 2009, it merged with Gøtu kommuna to make the new municipality called Eysturkommuna.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leirvík” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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5 mapped locations