Seltjarnarnes

alt=One of the most traditional houses in Iceland.|thumb|251x251px|Nesstofa during the winter 2019–2020. Seltjarnarnes () is a town and municipality in the Capital Region of Iceland. The municipality is located on a peninsula, bordered only by Reykjavík to the east.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Seltjarnarnes
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Seltjarnarneskirche.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 250px
Settlement.image_caption: Seltjarnarnes
Settlement.image_shield: Seltjarnarness COA.svg
Settlement.shield_size: 100px
Settlement.image_map: Seltjarnarnesbær (áður Seltjarnarneskaupstaður og þaráður Seltjarnarneshreppur) frá 1948 kort.png
Settlement.map_caption: Location of the municipality
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_title1: Market right

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections

Contents

Overview
Demographics
Sports
Notable people
Twin towns – sister cities
References
External links

It took on its current political form shortly after the Second World War and was formally created as a township in 1947. It is the smallest Icelandic township by land. The municipality's small land size relative to its population makes it Iceland's most densely populated municipality.

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