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Northern Europe · sovereign state

Iceland

Capital
Reykjavik
Languages
Icelandic
Currency
Icelandic króna
People
392,404 (2025)
Neighbours
none by land
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Iceland

  • 2nd highest life satisfaction 7.54 · #2 of 163 · 2025
  • 3rd highest air passengers per resident 11.07 · #3 of 165 · 2023
  • 4th highest height of women 168.9 cm · #4 of 196 · 2019

Surprising facts about Iceland

The comparisons that stand out most against its neighbours, its region and the world median.

Picked for surprise among Iceland’s neighbours, its region and the world median.

Iceland among 213 countries & territories

Each dot shows where Iceland sits between the lowest and the highest value in the world; “See it” opens the full visual against the world median. Higher is not automatically better.

World twins

The countries most like Iceland across 12 indicators (GDP/person, Life exp., Median age, Fertility, Urban, Internet, Schooling, CO₂/person, Density, Temperature, Happiness, Obesity). Each indicator is standardised and compared by average distance; a resemblance, not a score.

Nearest countries

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Iceland has no land borders: these are the 5 nearest countries by distance between capitals. Equal-area map centred on Iceland.

Natural rivals

About the same size

About as many people