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What is Iceland like?

  • Food and Recipes: Fish is very popular as is broiled lundi or puffin, Whale blubber, whale steaks, and seal meat are available from... More
  • Family: Icelandic people rate family as more important than either their social life, their possessions or their work. The Icelandic people... More
  • Fashion: Icelanders like to wear clothes from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. Icelanders consider themselves very stylish people.... More
  • Visiting: On the weekend and especially on Friday nights young men and women go out on the town. Typically a group... More

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Iceland Facts

Capital Reykjavik
Government Type parliamentary republic
Currency ISK
Population 335,878
Total Area 39,768 Square Miles
103,000 Square Kilometers
Location Northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the United Kingdom
Language Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken
GDP - real growth rate 3.7%

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