Talk:Regions of Iceland

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Bjarki S in topic English names

Iceland is divided in fenced off areas edit

The farm policy government regions in Iceland to control livestock

Good areas

Vesturlandshólf
Snæfellsneshólf
Dalahólf
Vestfjarðahólf eystra
Vestfjarðahólf vestra
Miðfjarðarhólf
Grímseyjarhólf
Eyjafjarðarhólf
Suðausturlandshólf
Öræfahólf
Eyjafjalla- og Vestur-Skaftafellssýsluhólf
Rangárvallahólf
Grímsnes- og Laugardalshólf
Vestmannaeyjahólf

Problem areas

Vatnsneshólf
Húnahólf
Skagahólf
Héraðshólf
Austfjarðahólf
Suðurfjarðahólf
Hreppa- Skeiða- og Flóahólf
Biskupstungnahólf

Partal problem areas

Tröllsaskagahólf
Landnámshólf
Norðausturhólf
Skjálfandahólf

see: [1]

213.213.139.124 (talk) 12:33, 11 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

English names edit

In my mind, the only authoritative source on official English names for these regions is Statistics Iceland, they use the names:

  • Capital region
  • Southwest
  • West
  • Westfjords
  • Northwest
  • Northeast
  • East
  • South

I propose using these on Wikipedia rather than the current names that are unofficial translations by users. For disambiguation I also propose adding "region" with a lower-case R to the names and Iceland in parentheses if necessary. --Bjarki (talk) 09:33, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Reply