Sits astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is widening by about 2 cm a year; it runs almost entirely on geothermal and hydro power.
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Iceland
Iceland · Ísland
Europe
· Northern Europe
0Population
103Kkm² of land
$66.95KGDP / person
ReykjavíkCapital
- ISO codes
- IS · ISL
- Density
- 4 /km²
- Languages
- Icelandic
- Currency
- Icelandic króna (ISK)
- Dial code
- +354
- Internet domain
- .is
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 64.7790° N, 18.6740° W
- Demonym
- Icelander
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $24.19B
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Iceland stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
179th
of 242 · 0.00% of world population
Land area
109th
of 242 · 0.07% of world land
GDP per person
14th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
223rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Iceland
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 361,313 people, the 179th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 21,247 of everyone alive.
Covers 103,000 km², making it the 109th largest country here - about 11.1 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 4 people per km².
The capital is Reykjavík, at 64.15° N, 21.95° W, with a metropolitan population of about 166,212.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Atlantic/Reykjavik.
The currency is the Icelandic króna (ISK, symbol kr).
The official language is Icelandic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Atlantic/Reykjavik
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
★ Reykjavík
Suðurnes
64.1500° N, 21.9500° W
166.21K
🧭 Worth the trip
Vatnajökull Ice Caves
Nature
Meltwater tunnels under Europe's largest ice cap, refrozen each winter into blue glass that never repeats.