Grafarvogur is among the largest residential suburb

Suburb

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s of Reykjavík

Reykjavík

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, Iceland

Iceland

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. It is a relatively new neighbourhood, major construction began in the late 1980s and continued well into the '90s.

Sub-districts

Today Grafarvogur comprises eight sub-districts of which five - the Rimi, Hamrar, Borgir, Víkur and western Fold subdistricts - fall within the boundaries of historic Gufunes

Gufunes

Gufunes is a historical estate and park for sculptures and artwork in northeastern Reykjavik. Today it lies within the Grafarvogur part of the city, located to the southwest and south of the Eidsvik Cove and Geldinganes Headland. It contains some 25 sculptures by Hallsteinn Sigurðsson amongst...

 estate.

Shopping

Grafarvogur currently has one medium-sized shopping centre called Spöngin. It's not a mall in itself but a cluster of stores, Hagkaup

Hagkaup

Hagkaup is an Icelandic hypermarket chain owned by retail company Hagar. Its concept is wide selection of food and non-food products including clothing, electronics, entertainment, seasonal goods and toys.- History :...

being the largest. Also there are small clusters of stores in Hverafold, by Víkurvegur and Langirimi Streets. Those are much smaller and contain only a few stores, the supermarkets being the largest of the few.