Iceland

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
IS
ISO alpha-3
ISL
ISO numeric
352
FIPS 10-4
IC
GeoNames ID
2629691

Key facts

Capital
Reykjavik
Area
103,000 km²
Population
353,574
Currency
Krona (ISK)
Calling code
+354
Top-level domain
.is
Official languages
is,en,de,da,sv,no

Continent

Name
Europe
Code
EU
In this dataset
54 countries

Europe in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
65
Longitude
-18
Min latitude
63.39671458500004
Min longitude
-24.539906378999945
Max latitude
66.56415436400005
Max longitude
-13.502919074999909

Boundary

Iceland

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/IS?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 103000,
    "capital": "Reykjavik",
    "continent_code": "EU",
    "currency_code": "ISK",
    "iso3_code": "ISL",
    "iso_code": "IS",
    "name": "Iceland",
    "population": 353574
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/IS/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=IS
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=IS
  • /v1/timezones?country=IS
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Name in other languages

Arabic
آيسلندا
Chinese
冰岛
English
Iceland
French
Islande
German
Island
Hindi
आइसलैंड
Italian
Islanda
Japanese
アイスランド
Korean
아이슬란드
Portuguese
Islândia
Russian
Исландия
Spanish
Islandia
Total language variants
154

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Atlantic/Reykjavik UTC+00:00 UTC+00:00

Postal code format

Format
###
Pattern
^(\d{3})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Höfuðborgarsvæði
  • Norðurland Eystra
  • Suðurland
  • Suðurnes
  • Vesturland
  • Austurland
  • Norðurland Vestra
  • Vestfirðir

8 of 8 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Reykjavík 118,918
Kópavogur 40,040
Hafnarfjörður 31,525
Reykjanesbær 19,724
Akureyri 19,219
Keflavík 15,930
Mosfellsbær 13,715
Garðabær 11,421
Selfoss 9,000
Akranes 7,411

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
117
First-level regions
8
Postal codes
195
Name languages
154
Boundary polygon
Yes

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