Faroe Islands
This page was generated on 13 September 2026 at 14:14 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 5 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Faroe Islands is filled. No other country reaches this view. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Faroe Islands. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 61.9°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 8.0°W–5.9°W, 61.3°N–62.5°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Faroe Islands. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
1 source from Faroe Islandsin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- Kringvarp Føroya (KVF)
sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated only
Official alerts
no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.
National legislature
no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Tórshavn
12°C / 54°FOvercastwind 18 km/h / 11 mph
Checked 14 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Tórshavn, 2026-09-13Sunrise 6:47 AM · sunset 7:57 PM13h 10m of daylightWaxing crescent, 4% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- FROuncited
- Driving side
- rightuncited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vcited
- Capital
- Tórshavnuncited
- Official languages
- Danish, Faroeseuncited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type E, Type F (Schuko), Type Kcited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- No source assessed yet
Population and economy
Population
Population of Faroe Islands: the UN's 2025 estimate is 54,900 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 260 more a year. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 54,900 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 54,640 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 260 more a year (260 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 54,9002025
- GDP
- 4,052,937,1702024
- GDP per capita
- 74,1752024
- Life expectancy at birth
- 83.1 years2024
- Exports
- 54.6%2024
- Imports
- 51.2%2024
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
World Heritage Sites
Coverage limitedWe hold no World Heritage entry for this country, but our read of the register is not known to be complete, so this is not a finding of none. 6 inscribed sites are in the register and reach no page here — the source records no country for them, so they could belong to any country. That is why an empty result anywhere cannot be read as an absence.
Emergency numbers
- 112
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
DKK
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-07. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.