Reykjanesbær

**Reykjanesbær**
Basic data
State :	Iceland
Region:	Suðurnes
Constituency :	Suðurkjördæmi
Sýsla :	circular
Population:	18,920 (January 1, 2019)
Surface:	145 km²
Population density:	130.48 inhabitants / km²
Post Code:	230, 232, 233, 260 (Reykjanesbær) ; 235 (Keflavíkurflugvöllur)
politics
Community number	2000
Mayor:	Kjartan Már Kjartansson
Contact
Website:	www.rnb.is
map
	Coordinates: 64 ° 0 ′ N , 22 ° 33 ′ W

Reykjanesbær ( dt. "Smoke Peninsula City") is a municipality on the peninsula Reykjanes in southwest Iceland .

It was created in 1994 through the merger of the towns of Keflavík ( Keflavíkurbær ) and Njarðvík ( Njarðvíkurbær ) with the rural municipality of Hafnir ( Hafnahreppur ). Since 2007 there is still the new village Vallarheiði with 539 inhabitants.

The community has a total of 18,920 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019).

Keflavík

The largest city in the municipality is Keflavík with 8,169 inhabitants.

Njarðvík

Njarðvík ( Eng. "Bay of Njörðr ") is a small Icelandic town (4,398 inhabitants) in the west of the Reykjanesskagi peninsula. The quiet port town ( fishing and fish processing ) is divided into two districts: Innri-Njarðvík ( Inner Njarðvík ) and Ytri-Njarðvík (the significantly younger district, Outer Njarðvík ).

The place has few architectural features, worth mentioning is the idiosyncratic light concrete church Ytri-Njarðvíkurkirkja by Ormar Þór Guðmundsson and Örnólfur Hall , which was inaugurated in 1979. In the older part of the village there is the Innri-Njarðvíkurkirkja , which was inaugurated in 1886 and made of stone . The place also has a youth hostel .

Hafnir

Hafnir is a small town with 108 inhabitants on the west side of the Reykjanesskagi, on the south bank of the Ósar Bay .

Sons and daughters of the church

Ólafur Gottskálksson (* 1968 in Keflavík), football player

Town twinning

Reykjanesbær lists seven twin cities :

United Kingdom Brighton , UK
Denmark Hjørring , Denmark
Finland Kerava , Finland
Norway Kristiansand , Norway
Faroese Vága kommuna , Faroe Islands
United States Orlando , Florida , USA
Sweden Trollhättan , Sweden

Web links

Local government website (Icelandic)
Information on the town of Hafnir

Individual evidence

↑ Vinabæir | Upplýsingavefur sveitarfélagsins Reykjanesbæjar. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
↑ Upplýsingavefur sveitarfélagsins Reykjanesbæjar - Vinabæir . Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
↑ KEFLAVÍK REYKJANESBÆR . Retrieved August 11, 2015.

[Twins-1] Vinabæir | Upplýsingavefur sveitarfélagsins Reykjanesbæjar. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .

[2] Upplýsingavefur sveitarfélagsins Reykjanesbæjar - Vinabæir . Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2015.

[3] KEFLAVÍK REYKJANESBÆR . Retrieved August 11, 2015.