Sveitarfélag ið Árborg () is a municipality in southern
Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...
. It is the most populous in the region, with a population of 11,565 in 2024.
Founded in 1998, its largest town is
Selfoss.
Eyrarbakki and
Stokkseyri are two communities on the southern coast and
Sandvíkurhreppur is a rural administrative region between those three other towns.
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
Árborg is
twinned with:
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Arendal, Norway
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Kalmar, Sweden
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Savonlinna
Savonlinna (, , ; ) is a town in Finland, located in the eastern interior of the country. It lies in the Finnish Lakeland, the South Savo region. The population of Savonlinna is approximately , while the Savonlinna sub-region, sub-region has a pop ...
, Finland
See also
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Municipalities of Iceland
The municipalities of Iceland ( ; Grammatical number#Overview, sing. ) are local administrative areas in Iceland that provide a number of services to their inhabitants such as kindergartens, elementary schools, waste management, social serv ...
References
Municipalities of Iceland
Selfoss
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