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Iceland
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Ísland |
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Ísland - Lýðveldið Ísland
Lýðveldið Ísland er landamæralaust land í Norður-Atlantshafi staðsett norðvestur af Færeyjum milli Grænlands og Skotlands. Ísland er staðsett á heitum reit á Atlantshafshryggnum. Það er 102.800 ferkílómetrar að stærð. Þar eru mörg virk eldfjöll (sjá eldfjöll Íslands) og ber þar helst að nefna Heklu (1491m). Um það bil 10% eyjarinnar er undir jöklum. Á Íslandi eru hverir víða, og gnótt jarðhita færir íbúunum heitt vatn, sem meðal annars er notað til húshitunar. Ísland er önnur stærsta eyja Evrópu, á eftir Bretlandi. Eyjan er vogskorin, og flestir bæir standa við firði, víkur og voga. Helstu þéttbýlisstaðir eru höfuðborgin Reykjavík, Keflavík, þar sem einn af alþjóðlegum flugvöllum landsins er staddur, og Akureyri. Ísland liggur á tveimur jarðskorpuflekum, Norður-Ameríkuflekanum og Evrasíuflekanum. Landið telst sögulega til Evrópu.
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Iceland - Republic of Iceland
The Republic of Iceland is an island nation in the northern Atlantic Ocean between ► Greenland, ► Norway, ► Scotland, ► Ireland, and the ► Faroe Islands To the north east lie ► Jan Mayen and ► Svalbard.
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| Short name |
Iceland |
| Official name |
Republic of Iceland |
| Status |
Independent country since 1918, Personal Union with Denmark until 1944 |
| Location |
North Atlantic Ocean |
| Capital |
Reykjavík |
| Population |
309,699 inhabitants |
| Area |
103,000 km² |
| Major language(s) |
Icelandic |
| Major religion(s) |
Protestantism |
| More information |
Iceland, Geography of Iceland, History of Iceland and Politics of Iceland |
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Iceland - Iceland (Category). |
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General maps
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Map of Iceland |
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A larger map of the regions |
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Constituencies, a different version that also includes municipality boundaries |
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Population changes in municipalities 2004-2005. |
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This map shows the changes in population of the municipalities of Iceland in the ten year period 1996-2006. The dark red municipalities have lost over 20% of their population in this period while the lighter red have experienced less severe depopulation. The yellow indicates the one municipality which had the exactly same number of inhabitants in 1996 and 2006. The green municipalities experienced a growth in population, the growth was lower than the total growth of the nation in the period (13.92%) in the light green ones and higher than the national rate in the dark green ones. |
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A large map of Iceland with municipalities for easy colouring |
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Main bays and fjords |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Iceland, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Iceland.
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Map showing Scandinavian settlement in the eighth (dark red), ninth (red), tenth (orange) and eleventh (yellow) centuries. Areas denoted in green are those affected by frequent viking incursions but with little or no Scandinavian settlement. |
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.
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The mythical island of Thule on the Carta Marina, 1539 |
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Map by Benedetto Bordone, 1547 |
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Map of Islandia Insvla by Giovanni Camocio, 1571 |
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German map of the region, 1588 |
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Map by Raffaelo Savanarola, 1713 |
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Map of Iceland, 1910 |
Satellite maps
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Satellite map |
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Satellite map (winter) |
Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
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