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Miðvágur
Sign in to saveMiðvágur (), is a village in the Faroe Islands on Vágar. It has been a municipality until 1 January 2009 when it fused with Sandavágur into Vága kommuna.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Miðvágur
- Settlement.other_name
- Midvåg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Faroe Islands, Vágar, Miðvágur (01).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Faroe Islands
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the Faroe Islands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Island
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Vágar
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Vága kommuna
- Settlement.population_as_of
- September 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 1137
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- ZIP code
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Vága Kommuna
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Sports
- People of note from Miðvágur
- See also
- References
- External links
Miðvágur (), is a village in the Faroe Islands on Vágar. It has been a municipality until 1 January 2009 when it fused with Sandavágur into Vága kommuna.
Located on the south coast of the island of Vágar, Miðvágur is the largest town on this Faroese island. For years, Miðvágur has been known as a good location for whaling and traditionally, bells would ring with the cry "Grindaboð!" - "Pilot whale ahoy!"
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miðvágur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations