Faroe Islands
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- FO
- ISO alpha-3
- FRO
- ISO numeric
- 234
- FIPS 10-4
- FO
- GeoNames ID
- 2622320
Key facts
- Capital
- Torshavn
- Area
- 1,399 km²
- Population
- 48,497
- Currency
- Krone (DKK)
- Calling code
- +298
- Top-level domain
- .fo
- Official languages
- fo,da-FO
Continent
- Name
- Europe
- Code
- EU
- In this dataset
- 54 countries
Location
- Min latitude
- 61.39411041900007
- Min longitude
- -7.644154425999943
- Max latitude
- 62.39891185100004
- Max longitude
- -6.2757869129999335
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/FO?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 1399,
"capital": "Torshavn",
"continent_code": "EU",
"currency_code": "DKK",
"iso3_code": "FRO",
"iso_code": "FO",
"name": "Faroe Islands",
"population": 48497
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/FO/regions/v1/cities?country=FO/v1/postal-codes?country=FO/v1/timezones?country=FO
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- جزر فارو
- Chinese
- 法罗群岛
- English
- Faroe Islands
- French
- Îles Féroé
- German
- Färöer
- Hindi
- फ़ेरो द्वीपसमूह
- Italian
- Isole Faroe
- Japanese
- フェロー諸島
- Korean
- 페로 제도
- Portuguese
- Ilhas Faroé
- Russian
- Фарерские о-ва
- Spanish
- Islas Feroe
- Total language variants
- 120
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantic/Faroe | UTC+00:00 | UTC+01:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ###
- Pattern
^(?:FO)*(\d{3})$
First-level administrative regions
- Eysturoyar sýsla
- Norðoyar sýsla
- Suðuroyar sýsla
- Streymoyar Sýsla
- Vága Sýsla
- Sandoyar Sýsla
6 of 6 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Tórshavn | 13,200 |
| Klaksvík | 5,013 |
| Hoyvík | 4,618 |
| Argir | 2,504 |
| Fuglafjørður | 1,542 |
| Vágur | 1,363 |
| Vestmanna | 1,268 |
| Við Sjógv | 1,158 |
| Sørvágur | 1,148 |
| Saltangará | 1,116 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 185
- First-level regions
- 6
- Postal codes
- 130
- Name languages
- 120
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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