Capital: Reykjavik
Language: Icelandic
Population: 280 000
Religion: Lutheran
Industries: fishing and seafood processing, aluminum, tourism.
Agriculture products: seafood, wool.
- Generally speaking:
- The first settler who made his home in Iceland, where Reykjavik now stands was a Norwegian Viking, Ingolfur Arnarson, around 874 AD.
- Iceland is a geologically young land. It’s location places Iceland in geologically very active part of North Atlantic Ocean. For that reason Iceland has numerous volcanoes and geysers.
- 11% of the Iceland is covered by glaciers.
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