Selfoss

city in Iceland
City city Q192898
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Summary

Selfoss is a city[1]. Selfoss draws 1,273 Wikipedia views per month (city category, ranking #606 of 5,534).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Sveitarfélagið Árborg[3]
  • Country: Iceland[4]
  • Head of government: Bragi Bjarnason[5]
  • Official language: Icelandic[6]
  • Shares border with: Flúðir[7]
  • Twinned administrative body: Savonlinna[8], Arendal[9], Kalmar Municipality[10], Aasiaat[11]
  • Postal code: 800-806[12]
  • Commons category: Selfoss[13]
  • Located in time zone: UTC±00:00[14]
  • Official website: https://www.arborg.is/[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Selfoss[16]
  • Population: 6878[17], 7564[18], 9624[19], 6503[20], 6476[21], 5457[22], 4693[23], 4397[24], 4261[25], 9812[26]
  • Capital of: Southern Region[27]
  • Official name: Selfoss[28]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Selfoss[29]
  • Native label: Selfoss[30]
  • Different from: Selfoss[31]
  • Elevation above sea level: 9 m[32]
  • Area: 2,000,000 m²[33]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Selfoss include Selfoss Airport[34], an airport[35], in Iceland[36].

Why It Matters

Selfoss has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Selfoss is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for Selfoss include Selfoss Airport[34], an airport[35], in Iceland[36].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . arborg.is. arborg.is. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → UTC±00:00
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43894|batch #43894]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 18w ago · Numberguy6 · 2026-06-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Demonym → Selfyssingur
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Demonym: Selfyssingur"
  3. 19w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Openweathermap city id → 3413604
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 63.932169444444, 'lon': -21.000227777778}
    Store id google play → —
    + 88 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Spanish cultural heritage thesauri id: geografico/1203080"
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