Árborg

Sveitarfélagið Árborg is the biggest municipality in southern Iceland founded in 1998. The biggest town in the municipality is Selfoss. Eyrarbakki and Stokkseyri are two communities on the southern coast and Sandvíkurhreppur is a rural administrative region between those three other towns.

For the Canadian town of Arborg, see Arborg, Manitoba.
Sveitarfélagið Árborg
Sveitarfélagið Árborg
63°56′10″N 21°00′00″W
RegionSouthern Region
ConstituencySouth Constituency
ManagerÁsta Stefánsdóttir
Area158 km2 (61 sq mi)
Population9,485 (2019)[1]
Density60.30/km2 (156.2/sq mi)
Municipal number8200
Postal code(s)800, 801, 802, 820, 825
Websitearborg.is

The area was represented in the fifth episode of the first season of the parody TV series Documentary Now! as the host of an Al Capone Festival.

Twin towns — sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Iceland

Árborg is twinned with:[2]

See also

References
  1. "Population by municipalities, sex and age 1 January 1998-2019 - Current municipalities". PX-Web. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  2. "Vinabæir Selfoss". old.arborg.is (in Icelandic). Árborg. Retrieved 2020-02-12.


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