Tálknafjörður

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Tálknafjörður Tálknafjarðarhreppur
Village and Municipality
Nickname(s):  Tálknó, Fjörðurinn, heimalandið
Location of the Municipality of Tálknafjörður
Tálknafjörður Location of the Municipality of Tálknafjörður
Coordinates: 65°39′N 23°58′W / 65.650°N 23.967°W / 65.650; -23.967
Country	Iceland
Constituency	Northwest Constituency
Region	Westfjords
Municipality	Tálknafjörður
Government
• Mayor (Sveitarstjóri)	Arnór Ingi Sigurðsson
Population  (January 2011)
• Village and Municipality	294
• Urban	205
• Metro	200
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
Póstnúmer	460
Website	Official website

Tálknafjörður (Icelandic pronunciation: ​[ˈtʰaul̥knaˌfjœrðʏr̥]) is a fjord located in southern Westfjords between Patreksfjörður and Bildudalur in Iceland.

The term is also used for the immediate village and municipality. In January 2011, the municipality had 306 inhabitants, of which 294 lived within the town proper.

On the land side the municipality is surrounded by the municipality of Vesturbyggð. There is considerable cooperation between the two municipalities but unification was voted down in the latest election. The town of Tálknafjörður was formerly named Sveinseyri [ˈsveinsˌeiːrɪ] or Tunga [ˈtʰuŋka, ˈtʰʏŋka]. By road, the distance to Ísafjörður, the largest city in the West Fjords, is 137 km, and 403 km to Reykjavík. This distance can be significantly shortened by the ferry from [ˈprjaunsˌlaiːkʏr̥] to Stykkishólmur.

Since 2006, there has been a small group of summerhouses for sea angling tourists in Tálknafjörður. The houses are owned by Iceland Sea Angling.

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Coordinates: 65°37′36″N 23°49′28″W / 65.6268°N 23.8244°W / 65.6268; -23.8244

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