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Borðoy

island in the Faroe Islands
Landform island Q202170

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
island
Country
Faroe Islands[4]
Part of
Faroe Islands[7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 62.233°, -6.550°[9]
Area
+95[16]
Capital
Klaksvík[6]
Elevation above sea level
+755[15]
Highest point
Lokki[8]
Located in or next to body of water
Atlantic Ocean[5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hvannasund, Klaksvík Municipality[2][3]
Located in/on physical feature
Faroe Islands[10]
Native label
Borðoy, Bordø[13][14]
Population
+4954, +5534[11][12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Bordo en Bordø en Bordoy en Borðoy da Bordø de Bordö de Bordø de Bordoy el Μπόρντοϊ es Bordø es Bordoy fa بوروی fi Bordoy fr Bordø fr Bordo fr Bordö fr Bordoë fr Bordoy he בוראוי he בורד'וי
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Faroe Islands, Borðoy, Klaksvik and Borðoyarvík.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/04sryy
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2740353
GeoNames ID
2623700
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Borðoy
Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID
89
Lex ID
Borðoy
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2359156
RKD thesaurus ID
34628
Topic's main category
Category:Borðoy
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Island", "Borethoy"]

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🔗 Connections
← Located in/on physical feature 15
Klaksvík, Ánirnar, Norðoyatunnilin, Árnafjørður, Norðoyri, Depil, Klaksvík Municipality, Múli +7 more
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Klaksvík Municipality, Hvannasund
Capital 1
Klaksvík
Contained subdivisions 1
Fossá
Country 1
Faroe Islands
Instance of 1
island
Located in or next to body of water 1
Atlantic Ocean
Located in time zone 1
UTC±00:00
Located in/on physical feature 1
Faroe Islands
Part of 1
Faroe Islands
Topic's main category 1
Category:Borðoy
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Borðoy
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Summary

Borðoy is an island[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Hvannasund[2], a municipality of the Faroe Islands[17], in Faroe Islands[18] and Klaksvík Municipality[3], a municipality of the Faroe Islands[19], in Faroe Islands[20], founded in 1908[21].

Related Entities

Klaksvík

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . statbank.hagstova.fo:443. Retrieved . statbank.hagstova.fo:443. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 25d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 47
    Located in time zone → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'arz', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/58669|batch #58669]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 26w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → island
    Wolfram Language entity code → Entity["Island", "Borethoy"]
    Image purged at → —
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+755'}
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Island", "Borethoy"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257262|batch #257262]]"
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