Talk:Capital Region (Iceland)

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This article is full of misleading and simply wrong statements. I'm gona point out some of them:

"Reykjavík has most of the jobs of this area and is also mostly dense, except Grafarvogur." The first part is obvious, since it's by far the largest city/town in the area. The reader might think that reykjavik has more jobs per resident, but where's the statistics then? It would be interesting to find statistics about job ratios (jobs per person) in every city/town in the capital area if they exist. And in the second part I guess whoever wrote this was tryin to say Reykjavík is densly populated. That's true about some parts, but The City of Reykjavík covers an area from Hvalfjörður to Kópavogur. It includes mountains, farms and open areas that are not "dense" (all within city boundries). You could maybe say that the urban areas of Reykjavík are densly populated, but that's also true about other urban parts of the capital area.

"The town of Seltjarnarnes, at the end of the peninsula, is a dense residential district and includes almost no jobs." Wow, almost no jobs? What about the Eiðistorg shopping mall? Or The Directorate of Healt (Landlæknir) and all the buisnisses located at Austrströnd^[1]

"Mosfellsbær has not yet developed so that it connects to Reykjavík and is an individual town." Mosfellsbær is no more an induvidual town than Seltjarnarnes, Kópavogur or Hafnarfjörður. All of them are induvidual towns. The residential areas of Reykjavík and Mosfellsbær don't connect to each other, but neither do Álftanes and Hafnarfjörður/Garðabær or Kjalarnes (part of The City of Reykjavík north of Mosfellsbær)

"Kópavogur consists mainly of residential and commercial areas." Just like the rest of the great capital area.

"Garðabær, south of Kópavogur, is mostly a residential district with very widespread houses." What does a widespread house look like?

"Hafnarfjörður has got many jobs as well as residents." Many... but less than Kópavogur and Reykjavík!

"The city centers of Hafnarfjörður and Reykjavík make an attracting line and the urban area is in between these attractions." This makes no sense.

I think Wikipedia would be better of without this article if nobody improves it. It looks like sombody wrote this article according to his own feelings about different parts of the capital area, not facts. Guðmundur (talk) 00:31, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the article is obviously written around somebody's personal point of view. A good document to work with and cite in this article would be Svæðisskipulag höfðuborgarsvæðisins. It includes detailed statistics about job and resident distribution around the area. --Bjarki (talk) 00:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The 3 "suburbs" you mention do not seem to be on the map. Also the distinction between the 3 "suburbs" and the 7 local districts you mention is entirely unclear. Noting that in English the contextual distinction between suburbs and local government district differs from country to country.Eregli bob (talk) 13:11, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Title and lead sentence differ! PamD (talk) 07:02, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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On the map here and on google maps the capital region is shown as having a small southern exclave. Why? What importance does the exclave have if any? Any mention whatsoever of it is absent in the text on this article. 2A02:C7C:C4CD:A500:8424:D9B2:BFFF:1D9D (talk) 00:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The area is called

Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður. In the first half of the twentieth century, the municipality found itself in need of farmland and so it entered negotiations to buy the exclave in question. The Ministry of Justice and Church Affairs issued Hafnarfjöður a deed in 1941 for Krýsuvík. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 20:27, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply

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