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A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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Accretion (geology)
In geology, accretion is a process by which material is added to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone, frequently on the edge of existing continental landmasses.
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Administrative division
Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided.
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Age of the Sturlungs
The Age of the Sturlungs or the Sturlung Era (Sturlungaöld) was a 42–44 year period of violent internal strife in mid-13th century Iceland.
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
Agricultural University of Iceland
The Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI) is an educational and research institution focusing on agricultural, environmental sciences, landscape architecture and planning founded in 2005.
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Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption
In response to concerns that volcanic ash ejected during the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland would damage aircraft engines, the controlled airspace of many European countries was closed to instrument flight rules traffic, resulting in what at the time was the largest air-traffic shut-down since World War II.
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Akureyri
Akureyri (locally) is a town in northern Iceland.
Akureyri Airport
Akureyri Airport (Akureyrarflugvöllur, regionally also) is a single-runway international airport in Akureyri, Iceland, south of the town centre.
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Akureyri Golf Club
Akureyri Golf Club is a golf course located in Akureyri, Iceland, at Jaðarsvöllur, it was named "the most northerly 18-hole golf course" according to The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.
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Akvavit
Akvavit or aquavit (also akevitt in Norwegian; aquavit in English) is a distilled spirit that is principally produced in Scandinavia, where it has been produced since the 15th century.
Alaska Peninsula
The Alaska Peninsula (also called Aleut Peninsula or Aleutian Peninsula, Alasxix̂; Sugpiaq: Aluuwiq, Al'uwiq) is a peninsula extending about to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands.
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Alþingishúsið
(The Parliament House) is a classical 19th century structure which stands by Austurvöllur in central Reykjavík, Iceland.
Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.
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Althing
The i (general meeting), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the supreme national parliament of Iceland.
Aluminium smelting
Aluminium smelting is the process of extracting aluminium from its oxide, alumina, generally by the Hall-Héroult process.
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Amiina
Amiina (formerly Amína, stylized in lowercase) is an Icelandic band composed of members Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, and Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen and Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson.
Andesite
Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (p 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin.
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Angelica
Angelica is a genus of about 90 species of tall biennial and perennial herbs in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, reaching as far north as Iceland, Lapland, and Greenland.
Anita Briem
Anita Briem (born 29 May 1982) is an Icelandic actress.
Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir
Anna Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir (Anna Thorvaldsdottir) (born 11 July 1977) is an Icelandic composer.
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Arable land
Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
Arctic fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.
Ari Thorgilsson
Ari Þorgilsson (1067/1068 – 9 November 1148; Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic:; also anglicized Ari Thorgilsson) was Iceland's most prominent medieval chronicler.
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Arnarfjörður
italic is a large fjord in the Westfjords region of Iceland.
Artisanal fishing
Artisanal fishing (or traditional/subsistence fishing) consists of various small-scale, low-technology, low-capital, fishing practices undertaken by individual fisherman (as opposed to commercial fishing).
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Atlantic puffin
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family.
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Ásatrúarfélagið
Ásatrúarfélagið (Ásatrú Fellowship), also known simply as Ásatrú, is an Icelandic religious organisation of heathenry (in Iceland also called Ásatrú, "ás faith").
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Ásgrímur Jónsson
Ásgrímur Jónsson (March 4, 1876 – April 5, 1958) was an Icelandic painter, and one of the first in the country to make art a professional living.
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Íslendingabók
(Old Norse pronunciation:, Book of Icelanders) is a historical work dealing with early Icelandic history.
Íslendingabók (genealogical database)
(literally 'book of Icelanders') is a database created by the biotechnology company deCODE genetics and Friðrik Skúlason, attempting to record the genealogy of all Icelanders who have ever lived, where sources are available.
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Þórarinn B. Þorláksson
Þórarinn Benedikt Þorláksson (February 14, 1867 – July 10, 1924Kunst Index Danmark:. URL last accessed August 13, 2007.) was one of Iceland's first contemporary painters, the first Icelander to exhibit paintings in Iceland, and recipient of the first public grant that country made to a painter.
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Þórisvatn
Þórisvatn (sometimes anglicized to Thorisvatn) is the largest lake of Iceland, situated at the south end of the Sprengisandur plateau within the highlands of Iceland.
Þingvallavatn
Þingvallavatn, anglicised as Thingvallavatn, is a rift valley lake in southwestern Iceland.
Þingvellir
Þingvellir (anglicised as ThingvellirThe spelling Pingvellir is sometimes seen, although the letter "p" is unrelated to the letter "þ" (thorn), which is pronounced as "th".) was the site of the Alþing, the annual parliament of Iceland from the year 930 until the last session held at italic in 1798.
Þorramatur
Þorramatur (transliterated as thorramatur; food of Þorri) is a selection of traditional Icelandic food, consisting mainly of meat and fish products cured in a traditional manner, cut into slices or pieces and served with rúgbrauð (dense and dark rye bread), butter and brennivín (an Icelandic akvavit).
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
Barbary pirates
The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, Ottoman corsairs, or naval mujahideen (in Muslim sources) were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states.
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Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
Battery electric vehicle
A battery electric vehicle (BEV), pure electric vehicle, only-electric vehicle, fully electric vehicle or all-electric vehicle is a type of electric vehicle (EV) that exclusively uses chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs, with no secondary source of propulsion (a hydrogen fuel cell, internal combustion engine, etc.).
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bermuda Bowl
The Bermuda Bowl is a biennial contract bridge world championship for national.
Betula pubescens
Betula pubescens (syn. Betula alba), commonly known as downy birch and also as moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch, is a species of deciduous tree, native and abundant throughout northern Europe and northern Asia, growing farther north than any other broadleaf tree.
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Bifröst University
Bifröst University is a private university located in the valley of Norðurárdalur, approximately 30 kilometers north of Borgarnes, Iceland.
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Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services.
Birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970)
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 26 January 1970), known colloquially as Bjarni Ben, is an Icelandic politician, who is the current prime minister of Iceland since April 2024, and previously from January to November 2017.
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress.
Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
Black pudding
Black pudding is a distinct national type of blood sausage originating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Black-legged kittiwake
The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.
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Blood type
A blood type (also known as a blood group) is a classification of blood, based on the presence and absence of antibodies and inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs).
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Blue Lagoon (geothermal spa)
The Blue Lagoon (Bláa lónið) is a geothermal spa in southwestern Iceland.
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Bomb disposal
Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe.
Boreal Kingdom
The Boreal Kingdom or Holarctic Kingdom (Holarctis) is a floristic kingdom identified by botanist Ronald Good (and later by Armen Takhtajan), which includes the temperate to Arctic portions of North America and Eurasia.
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Borgartún
Borgartún is a street in Reykjavík, Iceland, that in years leading up to the country's economic crisis became the centre of the city's financial district.
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War (Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following a number of earlier violent incidents.
Brännvin
Brännvin is a Swedish liquor distilled from potatoes, grain, or (formerly) wood cellulose.
Brennivín
Brennivín is considered to be Iceland's signature distilled beverage.
Bright Future (Iceland)
Bright Future (Björt framtíð) was a liberal political party in Iceland founded in 2012.
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Bubbi Morthens
Bubbi Morthens, Laugardalsvöllur, Iceland (2007) Bubbi Morthens (full name Ásbjörn Kristinsson Morthens; born 6 June 1956) is an Icelandic singer and songwriter.
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Bubonic plague
Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.
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Bylgjan
Bylgjan (The Wave) is an Icelandic radio station, run by the media company Sýn.
Cabinet of Iceland
The Cabinet of Iceland (Stjórnarráð Íslands) is the collective decision-making body of the government of Iceland, composed of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Capital city
A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.
Capital Region (Iceland)
The Capital Region (lit) is a region in southwestern Iceland that comprises the national capital Reykjavík and six municipalities around it.
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Caraway
Caraway, also known as meridian fennel and Persian cumin (Carum carvi), is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to western Asia, Europe, and North Africa.
Catholic Church in Iceland
The Catholic Church in Iceland (Kaþólska kirkjan á Íslandi) is part of the Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope.
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CCP Games
CCP hf., doing business as CCP Games (short for Crowd Control Productions), is an Icelandic video game developer based in Reykjavík.
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Centre Party (Iceland)
The Centre Party (Miðflokkurinn) is a Nordic agrarian, populist and conservative political party in Iceland, established in September 2017.
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Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Children of Nature
Children of Nature (Börn náttúrunnar) is a 1991 Icelandic film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson.
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Chondrus crispus
Chondrus crispus—commonly called Irish moss or carrageenan moss (Irish carraigín, "little rock")—is a species of red algae which grows abundantly along the rocky parts of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
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Christian denomination
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship style and, sometimes, a founder.
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Christian III of Denmark
Christian III (12 August 1503 – 1 January 1559) reigned as King of Denmark from 1534 and King of Norway from 1537 until his death in 1559.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christianization of Iceland
Iceland was Christianized in the year 1000 AD, when Christianity became the religion by law.
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Christopher Nolan
Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker.
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Church attendance
Church attendance is a central religious practice for many Christians; some Christian denominations, such as the Catholic Church require church attendance on the Lord's Day (Sunday); the Westminster Confession of Faith is held by the Reformed Churches and teaches first-day Sabbatarianism (Sunday Sabbatarianism), thus proclaiming the duty of public worship in keeping with the Ten Commandments.
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Church of Iceland
The Church of Iceland (The National Church), officially the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (hin evangelíska lúterska kirkja), is the national church of Iceland.
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Circumboreal Region
The Circumboreal Region in phytogeography is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in Eurasia and North America, as delineated by such geobotanists as Josias Braun-Blanquet and Armen Takhtajan.
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Citizenship
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.
Civil union
A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.
Cod
Cod (cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.
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Cod Wars
The Cod Wars (Þorskastríðin; also known as Landhelgisstríðin,; Kabeljaukriege) were a series of 20th-century confrontations between the United Kingdom (with aid from West Germany) and Iceland about fishing rights in the North Atlantic.
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Command (military formation)
A command in military terminology is an organisational unit for which a military commander is responsible.
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Constituencies of Iceland
Iceland is divided into six constituencies for the purpose of selecting representatives to parliament.
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Constitution of Iceland
The Constitution of Iceland (Icelandic: Stjórnarskrá lýðveldisins Íslands "Constitution of the republic of Iceland") is the supreme law of Iceland.
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Continental Europe
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.
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Contract bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Corporate tax
A corporate tax, also called corporation tax or company tax, is a type of direct tax levied on the income or capital of corporations and other similar legal entities.
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE; Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
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Currency crisis
A currency crisis is a type of financial crisis, and is often associated with a real economic crisis.
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Daði Freyr
Daði Freyr Pétursson (born 30 June 1992), known professionally as Daði Freyr or simply Daði, is an Icelandic musician living in Berlin, Germany.
Dairy product
Dairy products or milk products, also known as lacticinia, are food products made from (or containing) milk.
Daníel Bjarnason
Daníel Bjarnason (born 26 February 1979) is an Icelandic composer and conductor.
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Dancer in the Dark
Dancer In The Dark is a 2000 musical psychological tragedy film written and directed by Lars von Trier.
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Danes
Danes (danskere) are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark.
Danish trade monopoly in Iceland
The Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly (Icelandic: Einokunarverslunin) was the monopoly on trade held by Danish merchants in Iceland in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Danish–Icelandic Act of Union
The Danish–Icelandic Act of Union, an agreement signed by Iceland and Denmark on 1 December 1918, recognized Iceland as a fully independent and sovereign state, known as the Kingdom of Iceland, which was freely associated to Denmark in a personal union with the Danish king.
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Davíð Oddsson
Davíð Oddsson (pronounced; born 17 January 1948) is an Icelandic politician, and the longest-serving prime minister of Iceland, in office from 1991 to 2004.
Daylight saving time
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
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DeCODE genetics
deCODE genetics (Íslensk erfðagreining) is a biopharmaceutical company based in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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Deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
Demographics of Iceland
The demographics of Iceland include population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe. Iceland and Denmark are Christian states, countries in Europe, member states of NATO, member states of the United Nations, members of the Nordic Council, Nordic countries and OECD members.
Denmark in World War II
At the outset of World War II in September 1939, Denmark declared itself neutral, but that neutrality did not prevent Nazi Germany from occupying the country almost immediately after the outbreak of war; the occupation lasted until Germany's defeat.
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Denmark–Norway
Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Die Another Day
Die Another Day is a 2002 spy film and the twentieth film in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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Down syndrome
Down syndrome (United States) or Down's syndrome (United Kingdom and other English-speaking nations), also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21.
Dust 514
Dust 514 was a free-to-play first-person shooter video game, developed by CCP Shanghai and published by CCP Games and Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Economic growth
Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year.
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Economy of Iceland
The economy of Iceland is small and subject to high volatility.
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Ecotourism
Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people.
Edda
"Edda" (Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) is an Old Norse term that has been applied by modern scholars to the collective of two Medieval Icelandic literary works: what is now known as the Prose Edda and an older collection of poems (without an original title) now known as the Poetic Edda.
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Effusive eruption
An effusive eruption is a type of volcanic eruption in which lava steadily flows out of a volcano onto the ground.
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Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people.
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Egil's Saga
Egill's Saga or Egil's saga (Egils saga) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald.
Egilsstaðir Airport
Egilsstaðir Airport (Egilsstaðaflugvöllur) is a single-runway domestic airport in Egilsstaðir, Iceland.
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Eimskip
Eimskipafélag Íslands hf. is an international shipping company with 56 offices in 20 countries and four continents; Europe, North America, South America and Asia.
Einar Hákonarson
Einar Hákonarson (born 14 January 1945, in Reykjavík, Iceland) is one of Iceland's best known artists.
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Eldfell
Eldfell is a volcanic cone just over high on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.
Eldgjá
Eldgjá ("fire canyon") is a volcano and a canyon in Iceland.
Eldvörp–Svartsengi
Eldvörp–Svartsengi; "fire cones–black meadow" in Icelandic also Svartsengi volcanic system) is a volcanic system in the southwest of Iceland on the Southern Peninsula, southeast of Keflavík International Airport and north of the town of Grindavík. Made up of fissures, cones and volcanic craters, it had been relatively inactive for several centuries until 2020, when the first in a series of magmatic intrusions occurred.
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Electoral district
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, electorate, or (election) precinct, is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislature.
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Emilíana Torrini
Emilíana Torrini Davíðsdóttir (born 16 May 1977) is an Icelandic singer and songwriter.
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Emporia State University
Emporia State University (Emporia State or ESU) is a public university in Emporia, Kansas, United States.
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Enclave and exclave
An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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England national football team
The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.
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Environmental Performance Index
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a method of quantifying and numerically marking the environmental performance of a state's policies.
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Equestrianism
Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting.
Erik the Red
Erik Thorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, was a Norse explorer, described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland.
Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. Iceland and Estonia are countries in Europe, member states of NATO, member states of the United Nations, OECD members and republics.
Eurasian Plate
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.
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Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
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EuroBasket
EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested quadrennially, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the European zone within the International Basketball Federation.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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European Economic Area
The European Economic Area (EEA) was established via the Agreement on the European Economic Area, an international agreement which enables the extension of the European Union's single market to member states of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
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European Free Trade Association
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
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Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Eve Online
Eve Online (stylised EVE Online) is a space-based, persistent world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by CCP Games.
Exclusive economic zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Executive (government)
The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.
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External debt
A country's gross external debt (or foreign debt) is the liabilities that are owed to nonresidents by residents.
Fagradalsfjall
Fagradalsfjall is an active tuya volcano formed in the Last Glacial Period on the Reykjanes Peninsula, around from Reykjavík, Iceland.
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Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.
Faroe Islands
The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. Iceland and Faroe Islands are Christian states, former Norwegian colonies, island countries, members of the Nordic Council and Nordic countries.
Faroese language
Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of which 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.
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Ferrosilicon
Ferrosilicon is an alloy of iron and silicon with a typical silicon content by weight of 15–90%.
Fiann Paul
Fiann Paul (born Paweł Pietrzak; 15 August 1980) is a Polish-Icelandic explorer known for his exploits in ocean rowing.
Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Fisheries management
The goal of fisheries management is to produce sustainable biological, environmental and socioeconomic benefits from renewable aquatic resources.
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
Fishing industry
The fishing industry includes any industry or activity that takes, cultures, processes, preserves, stores, transports, markets or sells fish or fish products.
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Fissure vent
A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure, eruption fissure or simply a fissure, is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without any explosive activity.
Fjarðabyggð
Fjarðabyggð is a municipality located in eastern Iceland, in the Eastern Region.
Fjölnir (journal)
Fjölnir was an Icelandic-language journal published annually in Copenhagen from 1835 to 1847.
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Fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.
Flat tax
A flat tax (short for flat-rate tax) is a tax with a single rate on the taxable amount, after accounting for any deductions or exemptions from the tax base.
FM 957 (Icelandic radio station)
FM 957 or FM is an Icelandic radio station.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
France national football team
The France national football team (Équipe de France de football) represents France in men's international football.
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Fréttablaðið
Fréttablaðið (The Newspaper) was a free Icelandic newspaper.
Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (born 12 May 1954; pronounced), sometimes credited as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, is an Icelandic film director and producer.
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Fuel cell
A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (often hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (often oxygen) into electricity through a pair of redox reactions.
Gaels
The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Gallup, Inc.
Gallup, Inc. is an American multinational analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
Garðabær
Garðabær is a town and municipality in the Capital Region of Iceland.
Garðar Svavarsson
Garðarr Svavarsson (Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic: Garðar Svavarsson; Modern Swedish: Gardar Svavarsson) was a Swede who briefly resided in Iceland, according to the Sagas.
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Gísla saga
Gísla saga Súrssonar (The saga of Gísli the Outlaw) is one of the sagas of Icelanders.
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.
Geothermal power
Geothermal power is electrical power generated from geothermal energy.
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Geyser
A geyser is a spring with an intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam.
Geysir
Geysir, sometimes known as The Great Geysir, is a geyser in south-western Iceland, that geological studies suggest started forming about 1150 CE.
Gimli, Manitoba
Gimli is an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Gimli on the west side of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada.
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Gin
Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients.
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Gini coefficient
In economics, the Gini coefficient, also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio, is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income inequality, the wealth inequality, or the consumption inequality within a nation or a social group.
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Glacial stream
A glacier stream is a channelized area that is formed by a glacier in which liquid water accumulates and flows.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
Glima
Glíma (anglicised as Glima) is an Icelandic sport for combat and is categorised as Nordic folk wrestling.
Glitnir (bank)
Glitnir was an international Icelandic bank.
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Global Innovation Index
The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness.
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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.
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Grímsey
Grímsey is a small Icelandic island, off the north coast of the main island of Iceland, where it straddles the Arctic Circle. Iceland and Grímsey are islands of Iceland.
Grímsvötn
Grímsvötn (vötn.
Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.
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Greenhouse
A greenhouse is a special structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside.
Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. Iceland and Greenland are Christian states, former Norwegian colonies, island countries, members of the Nordic Council and Nordic countries.
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.
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Grettis saga
Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar (modern, reconstructed), also known as Grettla, Grettir's Saga or The Saga of Grettir the Strong, is one of the Icelanders' sagas.
Grey seal
The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is a large seal of the family Phocidae, which are commonly referred to as "true seals" or "earless seals".
Grindavík
Grindavík is a fishing town in the Southern Peninsula district of Iceland, not far from Þorbjörn, a tuya (a type of flat-topped, steep-sided volcano).
Gross national income
The gross national income (GNI), previously known as gross national product (GNP), is the total domestic and foreign financial output claimed by residents of a country, consisting of gross domestic product (GDP), plus factor incomes earned by foreign residents, minus income earned in the domestic economy by nonresidents.
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Guðni Th. Jóhannesson
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (born 26 June 1968) is an Icelandic historian and politician who served as the sixth president of Iceland from 2016 to 2024.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson
Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson (born 9 June 1968) is an Icelandic politician for the Centre Party.
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Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu or the Saga of Gunnlaugur Serpent-Tongue is one of the sagas of Icelanders.
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Gymnasium (school)
Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.
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Haddock
The haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a saltwater ray-finned fish from the family Gadidae, the true cods.
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (transliterated as Hafthor in English; born 26 November 1988) is an Icelandic professional strongman who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strength athletes of all time.
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Hafdís Huld
Hafdís Huld Þrastardóttir (born 22 May 1979), known simply as Hafdís Huld, is an Icelandic singer and actress.
Hafnarfjörður
Hafnarfjörður, officially Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður, is a port town and municipality in Iceland, located about south of Reykjavík.
Hafnir
Hafnir is a town in southwestern Iceland.
Halibut
Halibut is the common name for three flatfish in the genera Hippoglossus and Reinhardtius from the family of right-eye flounders and, in some regions, and less commonly, other species of large flatfish.
Halla Tómasdóttir
Halla Tómasdóttir (born 11 October 1968) is currently serving as the seventh president of Iceland since 2024.
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Halldór Laxness
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Hallgrímur Pétursson
Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614 – 27 October 1674) was an Icelandic poet and a minister at Hvalsneskirkja and Saurbær in Hvalfjörður.
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Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.
Hangikjöt
Hangikjöt (lit. "hung meat") is a traditional festive food in Iceland, served at Christmas.
Hannes Hafstein
Hannes Þórður Pétursson Hafstein (4 December 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an Icelandic politician and poet.
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Harbor seal
The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere.
Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
Hákarl
i (an abbreviation of kæstur hákarl), referred to as fermented shark in English, is a national dish of Iceland consisting of Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months.
Hólar
Hólar (also Hólar í Hjaltadal) is a small community in the Skagafjörður district of northern Iceland.
Húsavík
Húsavík is a town in Norðurþing municipality on the northeast coast of Iceland on the shores of Skjálfandi bay with 2,485 inhabitants.
Head of government
In the executive branch, the head of government is the highest or the second-highest official of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.
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Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
Heathenry (new religious movement)
Heathenry, also termed Heathenism, contemporary Germanic Paganism, or Germanic Neopaganism, is a modern Pagan religion.
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Hekla
Hekla, or Hecla, is an active stratovolcano in the south of Iceland with a height of.
Hellisheiði Power Station
The Hellisheiði Power Station (Hellisheiðarvirkjun) is the eighth-largest geothermal power station in the world and largest in Iceland.
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Herðubreið
Herðubreið (broad-shouldered) is a tuya in northern part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland.
Herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.
Hiberno-Scottish mission
The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic Christianity in Scotland, Wales, England and Merovingian France.
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High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300.
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Highlands of Iceland
The Highland (Icelandic: Hálendið) or The Central Highland is an area that comprises much of the interior land of Iceland.
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Hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.
History of Iceland
The recorded history of Iceland began with the settlement by Viking explorers and the people they enslaved from Western Europe, particularly in modern-day Norway and the British Isles, in the late ninth century.
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Home rule
Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.
Homeschooling
Homeschooling or home schooling, also known as home education or elective home education (EHE), is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school.
Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson
Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarsson (Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic:; born 9th century) was a Norseman that intentionally sailed to Iceland.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human-powered watercraft
Human-powered watercraft are watercraft propelled only by human power, instead of being propelled by wind power (via one or more sails) or an engine.
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Hvannadalshnjúkur
Hvannadalshnjúkur (pronounced) or Hvannadalshnúkur is a pyramidal peak on the northwestern rim of the summit crater of the Öræfajökull volcano in Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland.
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Hydrocarbon exploration
Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for deposits of hydrocarbons, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth's crust using petroleum geology.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).
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Hydropower
Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.
I've Seen It All
"I've Seen It All" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk for the Dancer in the Dark soundtrack, Selmasongs (2000).
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Ice climbing
Ice climbing is a climbing discipline that involves ascending routes consisting of frozen water.
Iceland Air Defence System
The Iceland Air Defence System (Íslenska loftvarnarkerfið) is a part of the Icelandic Coast Guard.
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Iceland Crisis Response Unit
The Iceland Crisis Response Unit (ICRU; Íslenska friðargæslan) is an Icelandic para-military unit with a capacity roster of up to 200 people, of whom about 30 are active at any given time.
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Iceland Defense Force
The Iceland Defense Force (Varnarlið Íslands; IDF) was a military command of the United States Armed Forces from 1951 to 2006.
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Iceland hotspot
The Iceland hotspot is a hotspot which is partly responsible for the high volcanic activity which has formed the Iceland Plateau and the island of Iceland. Iceland and Iceland hotspot are mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Iceland national football team
The Iceland national football team represents Iceland in men's international football.
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Iceland Plateau
The Iceland Plateau or Icelandic Plateau is an oceanic plateau in the North Atlantic Ocean consisting of Iceland and its contiguous shelf and marginal slopes.
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Iceland Review
Iceland Review is the oldest English-language magazine about Iceland, having originally been published in August 1963.
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Icelanders
Icelanders (Íslendingar) are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland.
Icelandic Air Policing
Icelandic Air Policing is a NATO operation conducted to patrol Iceland's airspace.
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Icelandic Americans
Icelandic Americans (Íslenskir Bandaríkjamenn) are Americans of Icelandic descent or Iceland-born people who reside in the United States.
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Icelandic Canadians
Icelandic Canadians (Íslensk-kanadískur) are Canadian citizens of Icelandic ancestry, or Iceland-born people who reside in Canada.
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Icelandic cattle
Icelandic cattle (íslenskur nautgripur) are a breed of cattle native to Iceland.
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Icelandic chicken
The Icelandic chicken is a type of chicken from Iceland.
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Icelandic Coast Guard
The Icelandic Coast Guard (Landhelgisgæslan or simply Gæslan) is the Icelandic defence service responsible for search and rescue, maritime safety and security surveillance, national defense, and law enforcement.
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Icelandic Commonwealth
The Icelandic Commonwealth, also known as the Icelandic Free State, was the political unit existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing (Alþingi) in 930 and the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king with the Old Covenant in 1262.
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Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association
The Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association is a humanist lifestance organization in Iceland, that promotes secularism, offers celebrancy services and contributes to the spreading of humanism in Iceland and abroad.
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Icelandic goat
The Icelandic goat (íslenska geitin), also known as the 'settlement goat' (Capra hircus), is an ancient breed of domestic goat believed to be of Norwegian origin and dating back to the settlement of Iceland over 1100 years ago.
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Icelandic horse
The Icelandic horse (íslenski hesturinn), or Icelandic, is a breed of horse developed in Iceland.
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Icelandic independence movement
The Icelandic Independence movement (Icelandic: Sjálfstæðisbarátta Íslendinga) was the collective effort made by Icelanders to achieve self-determination and independence from the Kingdom of Denmark throughout the 19th and early 20th century.
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Icelandic króna
The króna or krona (sometimes called Icelandic crown; sign: kr; code: ISK) is the currency of Iceland.
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Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.
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Icelandic literature
Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people.
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Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative was a parliamentary resolution which was unanimously adopted by the Icelandic Parliament 16 June 2010.
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Icelandic Naming Committee
The Icelandic Naming Committee (Mannanafnanefnd; pronounced)—also known in English as the Personal Names Committee—maintains an official register of approved Icelandic given names and governs the introduction of new given names into Icelandic culture.
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Icelandic sheep
The Icelandic is the Icelandic breed of domestic sheep.
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Icelandic Sheepdog
The Icelandic Sheepdog (Íslenskur fjárhundur), is an Icelandic breed of dog of Nordic Spitz type.
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Icelandic Sign Language
Icelandic Sign Language (Íslenskt táknmál) is the sign language of the deaf community in Iceland.
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Icesave dispute
The Icesave dispute was a diplomatic dispute among Iceland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom which began after the privately owned Icelandic bank Landsbanki was placed in receivership on 7 October 2008.
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ICGV Þór (2009)
ICGV Þór (Thor) is an UT 512L type offshore patrol vessel designed by Rolls-Royce for the Icelandic Coast Guard, built to replace the aging.
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Independence Party (Iceland)
The Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) is a conservative political party in Iceland.
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Independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.
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Index of Economic Freedom
The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual index and ranking created in 1995 by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations.
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IndieWire
IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.
Infant mortality
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday.
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Inflection
In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.
Influence of the French Revolution
The French Revolution had a major impact on Europe and the New World.
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Ingólfr Arnarson
Ingólfr Arnarson, in some sources named Bjǫrnólfsson, (–) is commonly recognized as the first permanent Norse settler of Iceland, together with his wife Hallveig Fróðadóttir and foster brother Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson.
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Institute for Economics and Peace
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is a global think tank headquartered in Sydney, Australia with branches in New York City, Mexico City and Oxford.
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Interceptor aircraft
An interceptor aircraft, or simply interceptor, is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically for the defensive interception role against an attacking enemy aircraft, particularly bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International rankings of Iceland
The following are international rankings of Iceland.
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International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)French: Union Internationale des Télécommunications is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies.
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Internet culture
Internet culture is a quasi-underground culture developed and maintained among frequent and active users of the Internet (also known as netizens) who primarily communicate with one another online as members of online communities; that is, a culture whose influence is "mediated by computer screens" and information communication technology, specifically the Internet.
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Interstellar (film)
Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, who the screenplay with his brother Jonathan.
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Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Invasion of Iceland
The British invasion of Iceland (codenamed Operation Fork) by the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and Royal Marines occurred on 10 May 1940, during World War II.
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Irish people
Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.
Irreligion in Iceland
Irreligion in Iceland is prevalent, with approximately 10% of the population identifying as "convinced atheists" and a further 30% identifying as not religious.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Island country
An island country, island state, or island nation is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands. Iceland and island country are island countries.
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James Bond
The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.
Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. Iceland and Jan Mayen are mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (born 4 October 1942) is an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 2009 to 2013.
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Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval
Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval (15 October 1885 – 13 April 1972) was an Icelandic painter.
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Jón Arason
Jón Arason (1484 – November 7, 1550) was an Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, who was executed in his struggle against the imposition of the Protestant Reformation in Iceland.
Jón Páll Sigmarsson
Jón Páll Sigmarsson (28 April 1960 – 16 January 1993) was an Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder who was the first man to win the World's Strongest Man four times and the first and only man to win the World Muscle Power Classic five times.
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Jón Sigurðsson
Jón Sigurðsson (17 June 1811 – 7 December 1879) was the leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement.
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Jónas Hallgrímsson
Jónas Hallgrímsson (16 November 1807 – 26 May 1845) was an Icelandic poet, writer and naturalist.
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Jökulsárlón
Jökulsárlón (literally "glacial river lagoon") is a large glacial lake in southern part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland.
Júlíana Sveinsdóttir
Júlíana Sveinsdóttir (31 July 1889 – 17 April 1966) was one of Iceland's first female painters and textile artists.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (also promoted as Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D or Journey 3D) is a 2008 American 3D science fantasy action-adventure film directed by Eric Brevig and starring Brendan Fraser in the main role, Josh Hutcherson, and Anita Briem.
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Juniperus communis
Juniperus communis, the common juniper, is a species of small tree or shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae.
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Kalmar Union
The Kalmar Union (Danish, Norwegian, and Kalmarunionen; Kalmarin unioni; Kalmarsambandið; Unio Calmariensis) was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by widowed Queen Margaret of Norway and Sweden.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Katrín Jakobsdóttir (born 1 February 1976) is an Icelandic politician who served as the prime minister of Iceland from 2017 to 2024 and was a member of the Althing for the Reykjavík North constituency from 2007 to 2024.
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Kaupthing Bank
Kaupthing Bank (Kaupþing banki) was a major international Icelandic bank, headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant (Kárahnjúkavirkjun), officially called Fljótsdalur Power Station (Fljótsdalsstöð) is a hydroelectric power plant in Fljótsdalshérað municipality in eastern Iceland, designed to produce annually for Alcoa's Fjarðaál aluminum smelter to the east in Reyðarfjörður.
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Kópavogur
Kópavogur is a town in Iceland that is the country's second largest municipality by population.
Keflavík International Airport
Keflavík Airport (Keflavíkurflugvöllur), also known as Reykjavík–Keflavík Airport, is the largest airport in Iceland and the country's main hub for international transportation.
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Kingdom of Iceland
The Kingdom of Iceland (Konungsríkið Ísland; Kongeriget Island) was a sovereign and independent country under a constitutional and hereditary monarchy that was established by the Act of Union with Denmark signed on 1 December 1918. Iceland and Kingdom of Iceland are island countries.
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Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)
The term Norwegian Realm (*Noregsveldi, Norgesveldet, Noregsveldet) and Old Kingdom of Norway refer to the Kingdom of Norway's peak of power at the 13th century after a long period of civil war before 1240.
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Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Kirkjubæjarklaustur (Icelandic for "church farm cloister", pronounced; often referred to locally as just Klaustur) is a village in the south of Iceland on the hringvegur (road no. 1 or Ring Road) between Vík í Mýrdal and Höfn.
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Kolbeinn Sigþórsson
Kolbeinn Sigþórsson (born 14 March 1990) is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a forward.
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Kolbeinsey
Kolbeinsey (also known as Kolbeinn's Isle, Seagull Rock, Mevenklint, Mevenklip, or Meeuw Steen) is a small Icelandic islet in the Greenland Sea located off the northern coast of Iceland, north-northwest of the island of Grímsey. Iceland and Kolbeinsey are islands of Iceland and mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Kosovo War
The Kosovo War (Lufta e Kosovës; Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.
Labrador
Labrador is a geographic and cultural region within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Lagarfljót
Lagarfljót also called Fljótið is a river situated in the east of Iceland near Egilsstaðir.
Laki
Laki or Lakagígar (Craters of Laki) is a volcanic fissure in the western part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland, not far from the volcanic fissure of Eldgjá and the small village of Kirkjubæjarklaustur.
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Lamb and mutton
Sheep meat is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep.
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Landnámabók
Landnámabók ("Book of Settlements"), often shortened to Landnáma, is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement (landnám) of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE.
Landsbanki
Landsbanki (literally "National Bank"), also commonly known as Landsbankinn (literally "The National Bank") which is now the name of the current rebuilt bank (here called "New Landsbanki"), was one of the largest Icelandic commercial banks that failed as part of the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis when its subsidiary sparked the Icesave dispute.
Langenscheidt
Langenscheidt is a German publishing company that specializes in language reference works.
Large igneous province
A large igneous province (LIP) is an extremely large accumulation of igneous rocks, including intrusive (sills, dikes) and extrusive (lava flows, tephra deposits), arising when magma travels through the crust towards the surface.
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Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter.
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Late Middle Ages
The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
Latvia
Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Iceland and Latvia are countries in Europe, member states of NATO, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Lava field
A lava field, sometimes called a lava bed, is a large, mostly flat area of lava flows.
Laxdæla saga
Laxdæla saga, also Laxdœla saga (Old Norse pronunciation) or The Saga of the People of Laxárdalur, is one of the sagas of Icelanders.
LazyTown
LazyTown (Latibær) is an English-language Icelandic children's educational television series created by aerobics champion Magnús Scheving.
Left-Green Movement
The Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin – grænt framboð), also known by its short-form name Vinstri græn (VG), is an eco-socialist political party in Iceland.
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Legal recognition of sign languages
The legal recognition of signed languages differs widely.
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LGBT
is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".
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Life (magazine)
Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.
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Life expectancy
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
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Liqueur
A liqueur is an alcoholic drink composed of spirits (often rectified spirit) and additional flavorings such as sugar, fruits, herbs, and spices.
List of Christian denominations
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity, identified by traits such as a name, organization and doctrine.
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List of common film awards categories
The following is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various films, festivals, and people's awards.
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List of countries and dependencies by population density
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile.
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List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency.
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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year.
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List of countries by Human Development Index
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations in the annual Human Development Report.
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List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.
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List of islands by area
This list includes all islands in the world larger than.
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List of islands of Iceland
This is a list of islands of Iceland. Iceland and list of islands of Iceland are islands of Iceland.
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List of national parks of Iceland
Since 2008, Iceland has three national parks.
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List of sovereign states without armed forces
This is a list of sovereign states without armed forces.
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List of the first openly LGBT holders of political offices
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person, with details of the first such holder of each office.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. Iceland and Lithuania are countries in Europe, member states of NATO, member states of the United Nations, OECD members and republics.
Lithuanians
Lithuanians (lietuviai) are a Baltic ethnic group.
Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region.
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Local mean time
Local mean time (LMT) is a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time, forming a uniform time scale at a specific longitude.
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Lofsöngur
"Lofsöngur" (lit. "Hymn"), also known as "Ó Guð vors lands" ("O, God of Our Land"), is the national anthem of Iceland.
Longhouse
A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling.
Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.
Magnús Scheving
Magnús Örn Eyjólfsson Scheving (born 10 November 1964) is an Icelandic writer, television producer, actor, entrepreneur, and former athlete.
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Magnús Ver Magnússon
Magnús Ver Magnússon (born 23 April 1963) is an Icelandic former powerlifter and strongman competitor.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.
Marine mammal
Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence.
Market economy
A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe.
Massively multiplayer online game
A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or more commonly MMO) is an online video game with a large number of players to interact in the same online game world.
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Matronymic
A matronymic is a personal name or a parental name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor.
Matthías Jochumsson
Matthías Jochumsson (11 November 1835 – 18 November 1920) was an Icelandic Lutheran clergyman, poet, playwright, and translator.
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Múm
Múm (stylized in lowercase) is an Icelandic indietronica band whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.
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Mývatn
Mývatn is a shallow lake situated in an area of active volcanism in the north of Iceland, near Krafla volcano.
Medical evacuation
Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to wounded being evacuated from a battlefield, to injured patients being evacuated from the scene of an accident to receiving medical facilities, or to patients at a rural hospital requiring urgent care at a better-equipped facility using medically equipped air ambulances, helicopters and other means of emergency transport including ground ambulance and maritime transfers.
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Medieval Warm Period
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP), also known as the Medieval Climate Optimum or the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that lasted from to.
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Member states of NATO
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America.
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Mezzoforte (band)
Mezzoforte is an instrumental jazz-funk fusion band from Iceland, formed in 1977.
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge (a divergent or constructive plate boundary) located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
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Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
Minister for Iceland
Minister for Iceland (Minister for Island,; Ráðherra Íslands) was a post in the Danish cabinet for Icelandic affairs.
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Minister of Education and Children's Affairs (Iceland)
The Minister of Education and Children's Affairs is the head of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.
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Ministry of Education and Children (Iceland)
The Ministry of Education and Children (Mennta- og barnamálaráðuneytið) is an Icelandic cabinet-level ministry founded 16 December 1942.
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Mink
Mink are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera Neogale and Mustela and part of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, otters, and ferrets.
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Monarchy of Denmark
The monarchy of Denmark is a constitutional institution and a historic office of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Morgunblaðið
Morgunblaðið (The Morning Paper) is an Icelandic daily newspaper.
Mosquito
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species.
Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
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Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.
Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.
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MS Norröna
Norröna is the Faroes' largest ferry.
Multi-party system
In political science, a multi-party system is a political system where more than two meaningfully-distinct political parties regularly run for office and win elections.
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Municipalities of Iceland
The municipalities of Iceland (Sveitarfélög) are local administrative areas in Iceland that provide a number of services to their inhabitants such as kindergartens, elementary schools, waste management, social services, public housing, public transportation, services to senior citizens and disabled people.
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Naddodd
Naddodd (Naddoðr or Naddaðr; Naddoður; Naddoddur; fl. c. 9th century) was a Norse Viking who is credited with the discovery of Iceland.
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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Nasdaq Iceland
The Nasdaq Iceland, formerly known as the Iceland Stock Exchange (XICE) (Kauphöll Íslands), is a stock exchange located in Iceland.
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National anthem
A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation.
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National Gallery of Iceland
The National Gallery of Iceland (Listasafn Íslands) is an art museum in Reykjavík which contains a collection of Icelandic art.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
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NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War.
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Naval Air Station Keflavik
Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF) is a United States Navy air station at Keflavík International Airport, Iceland, located on the Reykjanes peninsula on the south-west portion of the island.
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Náttfari
Náttfari (Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic:; fl. 835–870) was a crew member who escaped his master, Garðar Svavarsson, and may have become the first permanent resident of Iceland in the 9th century.
Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station
The Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station (Nesjavallavirkjun) is the second-largest geothermal power station in Iceland.
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Net zero emissions
Global net zero emissions describes the state where emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activities, and removals of these gases, are in balance over a given period.
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Networked Readiness Index
The Networked Readiness Index is an index published annually by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with INSEAD, as part of their annual Global Information Technology Report.
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Neutral country
A neutral country is a state that is neutral towards belligerents in a specific war or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO, CSTO or the SCO).
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New Iceland
New Iceland (Nýja Ísland) is the name of a region on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba where Icelandic explorers settled in 1875.
New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City.
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. Iceland and Newfoundland and Labrador are former Norwegian colonies.
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Njáls saga
Njáls saga, also Njála, or Brennu-Njáls saga (Which can be translated as The Story of Burnt Njáll, or The Saga of Njáll the Burner), is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nordic Council
The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary Nordic cooperation among the Nordic countries. Iceland and Nordic Council are Nordic countries.
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Nordic Council Music Prize
The Nordic Council Music Prize is awarded annually by NOMUS, the Nordic Music Committee.
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Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.
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Nordic folk music
Nordic folk music includes a number of traditions of Nordic countries, especially Scandinavian.
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Nordic model
The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).
Norse settlements in Greenland
Norse settlements in Greenland were established in the years following 986 by settlers coming from Iceland. Iceland and Norse settlements in Greenland are former Norwegian colonies.
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Norsemen
The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
North American Plate
The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.
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North Atlantic Current
The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward.
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North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.
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North Germanic peoples
North Germanic peoples, Nordic peoples and in a medieval context Norsemen, were a Germanic linguistic group originating from the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Iceland and Norway are countries in Europe, member states of NATO, member states of the European Free Trade Association, member states of the United Nations, members of the Nordic Council, Nordic countries and OECD members.
Norwegians
Norwegians (Nordmenn) are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population.
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons.
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Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.
Ocean Explorers Grand Slam
The Ocean Explorers Grand Slam is an adventurer goal to complete open-water crossings on all five oceans using human-powered vessel.
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Ocean rowing
Ocean rowing is the sport of rowing across oceans.
Oceanic crust
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates.
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
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Of Monsters and Men
Of Monsters and Men is an Icelandic indie folk/rock band formed in Garðabær in 2010.
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Offal
Offal, also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the internal organs of a butchered animal.
Oil platform
An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.
Old Covenant (Iceland)
The Old Covenant (Modern Icelandic: Gamli sáttmáli; Old Norse) was the name of the agreement which effected the union of Iceland and Norway.
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
Old Norse religion
Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.
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Orkney
Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. Iceland and Orkney are former Norwegian colonies.
Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland. Iceland and Outer Hebrides are former Norwegian colonies.
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Outline of Iceland
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Iceland: Iceland – sovereign island nation located in the North Atlantic Ocean between continental Europe and Greenland.
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Panama Papers
The Panama Papers (Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016.
Papar
The Papar (from Latin, via Old Irish, meaning "father" or "pope") were Irish monks who took eremitic residence in parts of Iceland before that island's habitation by the Norsemen of Scandinavia.
Parliamentary republic
A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system of government where the executive branch (the government) derives its legitimacy from and is accountable to the legislature (the parliament).
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Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Passion Hymns
The Passíusálmar or Passion Hymns are a collection of 50 poetic texts written by the Icelandic minister and poet, Hallgrímur Pétursson.
Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor.
People's Party (Iceland)
The People's Party (Flokkur fólksins) is an Icelandic political party, which was founded in 2016 by Inga Sæland.
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Personal union
A personal union is a combination of two or more monarchical states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct.
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Phytogeography
Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón.
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Picea sitchensis
Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to just over tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft).
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Pilsner
Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager.
Pirate Party (Iceland)
The Pirate Party (Píratar) is a political party in Iceland.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Polar bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.
Polar climate
The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers but with varying winters.
Poles in Iceland
Poles make up the largest group of immigrants in Iceland.
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Polish diaspora
The Polish diaspora comprises Poles and people of Polish heritage or origin who live outside Poland.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Populus tremula
Populus tremula (commonly called aspen, common aspen, Eurasian aspen, European aspen, or quaking aspen) is a species of poplar native to cool temperate regions of the Old World.
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Portugal national football team
The Portugal national football team (Seleção Portuguesa de Futebol) has represented Portugal in men's international football competitions since 1921.
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Post-rock
Post-rock is a music genre characterized by the exploration of textures and timbres as well as non-rock styles, sometimes placing less emphasis on conventional song structures or riffs than on atmosphere, for musically evocative purposes.
Potato
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.
Prairie Public Television
Prairie Public's television service is a state network of public television signals operated by Prairie Public Broadcasting.
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President of Iceland
The president of Iceland (Forseti Íslands) is the head of state of Iceland.
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Primary energy
Primary energy (PE) is the energy found in nature that has not been subjected to any human engineered conversion process.
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Prime Minister of Iceland
The prime minister of Iceland (Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is head of government of the Republic of Iceland.
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Programme for International Student Assessment
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading.
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Progressive Party (Iceland)
The Progressive Party (Framsóknarflokkurinn, FSF) is an agrarian political party in Iceland.
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Prohibition in Iceland
Prohibition in Iceland went into effect in 1915 and lasted, to some extent, until 1 March 1989 (since celebrated as "Beer Day").
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Prometheus (2012 film)
Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction horror film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, with the screenplay co-written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof.
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Proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.
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Puffin
Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula.
Pump organ
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.
Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Quality of life
Quality of life (QOL) is defined by the World Health Organization as "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns".
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Ragnar Sigurðsson
Ragnar Sigurðsson (born 19 June 1986) is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as centre-back.
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Rail transport in Iceland
As of 2024, Iceland does not have a public railway system, although there have been three small short-lived railways in the past.
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RÚV (TV channel)
RÚV is the main television channel of RÚV, the Icelandic public broadcaster, launched in 1966.
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Rás 1
Rás 1 (Channel 1) is an Icelandic radio station belonging to and operated by Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV), Iceland's national public service broadcaster.
Rás 2
Rás 2 (Channel 2) is an Icelandic radio station belonging to the National Icelandic Broadcasting Service, RÚV.
Rímur
In Icelandic literature, a ríma (literally "a rhyme", pl. rímur) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called rímnahættir ("rímur meters").
Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
Regions of Iceland
The regions of Iceland are eight areas of Iceland that roughly follow the arrangement of parliamentary constituencies as they were between 1959 and 2003.
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Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
Religion in Iceland
Religion in Iceland has been predominantly Christianity since its adoption as the state religion by the Althing under the influence of Olaf Tryggvason, the king of Norway, in 999/1000 CE.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.
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Representative democracy
Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public.
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Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Reyka
Reyka is a brand of vodka distilled and bottled in Iceland.
Reykjanesbær
Reykjanesbær is a municipality on the Southern Peninsula (Suðurnes) in Iceland, though the name is also used by locals to refer to the suburban region of Keflavík and Njarðvík which have grown together over the years.
Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.
Reykjavík Airport
Reykjavík Airport (Icelandic: Reykjavíkurflugvöllur) is the main domestic airport serving Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, located about from the city centre.
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Reykjavík Summit
The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 11–12 October 1986.
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Reykjavík University
Reykjavík University (RU; Háskólinn í Reykjavík) is the largest private university in Iceland with approximately 3,300 students.
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Reykjavik Art Museum
Reykjavik Art Museum (Listasafn Reykjavíkur; founded in 1973) is the largest visual art institution in Iceland.
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Rhyolite
Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker.
Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
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Rock climbing
Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls.
Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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Route 1 (Iceland)
Route 1 or the Ring Road is a national road in Iceland that circles the entire country.
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Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi - Billedkunst Skolerne) has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Rune
A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples.
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Saga of Erik the Red
The Saga of Erik the Red, in Eiríks saga rauða, is an Icelandic saga on the Norse exploration of North America.
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Saga of the Greenlanders
Grœnlendinga saga (spelled Grænlendinga saga in modern Icelandic and translated into English as the Saga of the Greenlanders) is one of the sagas of Icelanders.
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Sagas of Icelanders
The sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas.
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Saint Thorlak
Thorlak Thorhallsson (Icelandic: Þorlákur Þórhallsson; 1133 – 23 December 1193) is the patron saint of Iceland.
Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.
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Same-sex marriage in Iceland
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Iceland since 27 June 2010.
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Sóley
Sóley Stefánsdóttir (born 20 October 1987), better known simply as Sóley, is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter.
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
Schnapps
Schnapps or schnaps is a type of alcoholic beverage that may take several forms, including distilled fruit brandies, herbal liqueurs, infusions, and "flavored liqueurs" made by adding fruit syrups, spices, or artificial flavorings to neutral grain spirits.
Scottish people
The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.
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Secularity
Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.
Selfoss (town)
Selfoss is a town in southern Iceland on the banks of the Ölfusá river.
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Settlement of Iceland
The settlement of Iceland (landnámsöld) is generally believed to have begun in the second half of the ninth century, when Norse settlers migrated across the North Atlantic.
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Seyðisfjörður
Seyðisfjörður is a town in the Eastern Region of Iceland at the innermost point of the fjord of the same name.
Shetland
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. Iceland and Shetland are former Norwegian colonies.
Shield volcano
A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a shield lying on the ground.
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Showtime (TV network)
Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.
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Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (born 12 March 1975) is an Icelandic politician who was the prime minister of Iceland from May 2013 until April 2016.
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Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós is an Icelandic post-rock band that formed in 1994 in Reykjavík.
Sigurður Breiðfjörð
Sigurður Breiðfjörð (4 March 1798 – 1846) was an Icelandic poet.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
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Sjónvarp Símans
Sjónvarp Símans (The Phone's Television), formerly SkjárEinn (ScreenOne), is an Icelandic television channel owned by Síminn.
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Skald
A skald, or skáld (Old Norse:, later;, meaning "poet") is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry.
Skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
Skua
The skuas are a group of predatory seabirds with seven species forming the genus Stercorarius, the only genus in the family Stercorariidae.
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Skyr
Skyr is a traditional Icelandic cultured dairy product.
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Slátur
Slátur ("slaughter") is an Icelandic food made from the innards of sheep.
Smorgasbord
Smörgåsbord (directly translates to "sandwich-table") is a buffet-style meal of Swedish origin.
Smyril Line
Smyril Line is a Faroese shipping company, linking the Faroe Islands with Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands and Lithuania.
Snæfellsjökull
Snæfellsjökull (snow-fell glacier) is a 700,000-year-old glacier-capped stratovolcano in western Iceland.
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Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet.
Social Democratic Alliance
The Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin - jafnaðarflokkur Íslands) is a social democratic political party in Iceland.
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Social isolation
Social isolation is a state of complete or near-complete lack of contact between an individual and society.
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Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia, commonly called rowan (also) and mountain-ash, is a species of deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family.
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Southern Peninsula (Iceland)
Southern Peninsula (Suðurnes) is an administrative unit and part of Reykjanesskagi (pronounced), or Reykjanes Peninsula, a region in southwest Iceland.
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Species richness
Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Standing army
A standing army is a permanent, often professional, army.
State religion
A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
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Statistics Iceland
Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands) is the main official institute providing statistics on the nation of Iceland.
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Stöð 2
Stöð 2 (literally Station 2) is an Icelandic subscription television channel, owned and operated by Sýn.
Stöðvarfjörður
Stöðvarfjörður (formerly Kirkjuból) is a village in east Iceland.
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Steinn Steinarr
Steinn Steinarr (born Aðalsteinn Kristmundsson, 13 October 1908 – 25 May 1958) was an Icelandic poet.
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Stock market
A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies that are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms.
Strætó bs
Strætó bs is a public transport company which operates city buses in the Icelandic capital region, including Reykjavík and surrounding satellite towns and suburbs.
Strokkur
Strokkur (Icelandic, "churn") is a fountain-type geyser located in a geothermal area beside the Hvítá River in Iceland in the southwest part of the country, east of Reykjavík.
Subaerial
In natural science, subaerial (literally "under the air") has been used since 1833, in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Subarctic climate
The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
Sundhnúkur
Sundhnúkur is a volcanic hill, within its associated Sundhnúksgígar crater row and volcanic fissures (Sundhnúksgígaröðin) in the Svartsengi volcanic system, part of the Reykjanes Peninsula rift zone of Iceland.
Surname
A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.
Surtr
In Norse mythology, Surtr (Old Norse "black"Orchard (1997:154). "the swarthy one",Simek (2007:303–304) Surtur in modern Icelandic), also sometimes written Surt in English, is a jötunn; he is the greatest of the fire giants, who serves as the guardian of Muspelheim which is along with Niflheim, the only two realms to exist before the beginning of time.
Surtsey
Surtsey ("Surtr's island" in Icelandic) is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland. Iceland and Surtsey are islands of Iceland.
Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson
Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson (28 June 1847 – 23 February 1927) was an Icelandic composer best known for composing "Lofsöngur", the national anthem of Iceland.
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Sveinn Björnsson
Sveinn Björnsson (27 February 1881 – 25 January 1952) was the first president of Iceland (1944–1952).
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Taxation in Iceland
Taxes in Iceland are levied by the state and the municipalities.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Telemark skiing
Telemark skiing is a skiing technique that combines elements of Alpine and Nordic skiing, using the rear foot to keep balance while pushing on the front foot to create a carving turn on downhill skis with toe-only bindings.
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Telephone numbers in Iceland
Telephone numbers in Iceland are seven digits long and generally written in the form xxx xxxx or xxx-xxxx and the E.123 format specifies +354 xxx xxxx from abroad since the country code is +354.
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Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Living Art Museum
The Living Art Museum (Nýló) is a not-for-profit, artist-run museum and exhibition platform for innovative and experimental contemporary art in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Sacrifice (1986 film)
The Sacrifice (Offret) is a 1986 drama film written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
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The Sugarcubes
The Sugarcubes (Sykurmolarnir) was an Icelandic alternative rock band from Reykjavík formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
The Tudors
The Tudors is a historical fiction television series set primarily in 16th-century England, created and written by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime.
The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Thorn (letter)
Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English.
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Thrall
A thrall was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age.
Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.
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Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
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Tourism in Iceland
Tourism in Iceland has grown considerably in economic significance in the past 15 years.
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Track and field
Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.
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Trapped (Icelandic TV series)
Trapped (Ófærð) is an Icelandic television mystery drama series, created by Baltasar Kormákur and produced by RVK Studios.
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Treaty of Kiel
The Treaty of Kiel (Kieltraktaten) or Peace of Kiel (Swedish and Kielfreden or freden i Kiel) was concluded between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Sweden on one side and the Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway on the other side on 14 January 1814 in Kiel.
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Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.
Turkish Abductions
The Turkish Abductions (Tyrkjaránið) were a series of slave raids by pirates from Algier and Salé that took place in Iceland in the summer of 1627.
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Types of volcanic eruptions
Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.
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UEFA Euro 2016
The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2016) or simply Euro 2016, was the 15th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by UEFA.
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UEFA European Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro or Euros, is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Unitary parliamentary republic
A unitary parliamentary republic is a unitary state with a republican form of government in which the political power is vested in and entrusted to the parliament with confidence by its electorate.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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Universal health care
Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care.
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Universal Newsreel
Universal Newsreel (sometimes known as Universal-International Newsreel or just U-I Newsreel) was a series of 7- to 10-minute newsreels that were released twice a week between 1929 and 1967 by Universal Studios.
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University of Akureyri
The University of Akureyri (Háskólinn á Akureyri, regionally also) was founded in 1987 in the town of Akureyri in the northeastern part of Iceland.
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University of Iceland
The University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education.
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University of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.
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University of Technology Sydney
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Upland and lowland
Upland and lowland are conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level.
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UTC+00:00
UTC+00:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +00:00.
Value-added tax
A value-added tax (VAT or goods and services tax (GST), general consumption tax (GCT)), is a consumption tax that is levied on the value added at each stage of a product's production and distribution.
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Vatnajökull
Vatnajökull (Icelandic pronunciation:, literally "Glacier of Lakes"; sometimes translated as Vatna Glacier in English) is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and the second largest in area in Europe after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya.
Vatnajökull National Park
Vatnajökull National Park (Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður) is one of three national parks in Iceland.
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Vísir
Vísir was an Icelandic newspaper founded in December 1910 by Einar Gunnarsson, originally only distributed in and around Reykjavík.
Vísir.is
Vísir.is is an Icelandic online newspaper.
Vestmannaeyjar
Vestmannaeyjar (sometimes anglicized as Westman Islands) is a municipality and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. Iceland and Vestmannaeyjar are islands of Iceland.
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Viðreisn
The Viðreisn (officially known in English as the Liberal Reform Party) is a liberal centre to centre-right political party in Iceland that was founded on 24 May 2016 but had existed as a political network since June 2014.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (born 15 April 1930) is an Icelandic politician who served as the fourth president of Iceland from 1980 to 1996.
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Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
Vinland
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland (lit) was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings.
Voces Thules
Voces Thules is an Icelandic music ensemble formed in 1992.
Vodka
Vodka (wódka; водка; vodka) is a clear distilled alcoholic beverage.
Volcanic ash
Volcanic ash consists of fragments of rock, mineral crystals, and volcanic glass, produced during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter.
Volcanic plateau
A volcanic plateau is a plateau produced by volcanic activity.
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Volcanic rock
Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.
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Wealth tax
A wealth tax (also called a capital tax or equity tax) is a tax on an entity's holdings of assets or an entity's net worth.
Welfare state
A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.
Western European Time
Western European Time (WET, UTC±00:00) is a time zone covering parts of western Europe and consists of countries using UTC±00:00 (also known as Greenwich Mean Time, abbreviated GMT).
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Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.
Whaling in Iceland
Whaling in Iceland began with spear-drift hunting as early as the 12th century, and continued in a vestigial form until the late 19th century, when other countries introduced modern commercial practices.
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Women's List
The Women's List or Women's Alliance (Samtök um kvennalista), also called Kvennalistinn and abbreviated KL, was a feminist political party in Iceland that took part in national politics from 1983 to 1999.
World Chess Championship 1972
The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
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World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN).
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World's Strongest Man
The World's Strongest Man is an international strongman competition held every year.
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Wrestling
Wrestling is a martial art and combat sport that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset.
Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Zuism
Zuism (Zúismi) is an Icelandic group established in the 2010s to be a modern Pagan new religious movement based on the Sumerian religion.
.is
.is (dot is) is the top-level domain for Iceland.
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13th meridian west
The meridian 13° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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1707–08 Iceland smallpox epidemic
Iceland experienced one of its deadliest outbreaks of smallpox beginning in 1707.
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1944 Icelandic constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Iceland between 20 and 23 May 1944.
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1949 anti-NATO riot in Iceland
The anti-NATO riot in Iceland of 30 March 1949 was prompted by the decision of the Alþingi, the Icelandic parliament, to join the newly formed NATO, thereby involving Iceland directly in the Cold War, opposing the Soviet Union and re-militarizing the country.
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2000 Cannes Film Festival
The 53rd Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 25 May 2000.
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2000 Iceland earthquakes
The 2000 Iceland earthquakes struck southern Iceland on 17 and 21 June.
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2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.
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2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis
The Icelandic financial crisis was a major economic and political event in Iceland between 2008 and 2010.
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2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull
Between March and June 2010 a series of volcanic events at Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland caused enormous disruption to air travel across Western Europe.
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2013 Icelandic parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 27 April 2013.
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2017 Icelandic parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 28 October 2017.
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2018 FIFA World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national football teams organized by FIFA.
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2020 Icelandic presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Iceland on 27 June 2020.
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2021 Icelandic parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 25 September 2021 to elect the members of the Althing.
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25th meridian west
The meridian 25° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Verde Islands, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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63rd parallel north
The 63rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 63 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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68th parallel north
The 68th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 68 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.
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73rd Academy Awards
The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 2000 in film and took place on March 25, 2001, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
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See also
Former Norwegian colonies
- Danish colonization of the Americas
- Danish overseas colonies
- Earldom of Orkney
- Erik the Red's Land
- Faroe Islands
- Finnmark
- Fridtjof Nansen Land
- Greenland
- Hebrides
- Iceland
- Inner Hebrides
- Isle of Man
- Jämtland
- List of possessions of Norway
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Norse settlements in Greenland
- Orkney
- Outer Hebrides
- Shetland
- Sverdrup Islands
Islands of Iceland
- Æðaklettar
- Æðey
- Álsey
- Akurey
- Bjarnarey
- Borgarey
- Brandur
- Brokey
- Drangey
- Eldey
- Eldeyjarboði
- Elliðaey
- Engey
- Flatey, Breiðafjörður
- Flatey, Skjálfandi
- Geirfuglasker
- Geirfuglasker (Vestmannaeyjar)
- Grímsey
- Hegranes
- Heimaey
- Hellisey
- Hergilsey
- Hjörsey
- Hrísey
- Hvalbakur
- Iceland
- Jólnir
- Kolbeinsey
- List of islands of Iceland
- Lundey, Faxaflói
- Lundey, Skagafjörður
- Lundey, Skjálfandi
- Málmey
- Melrakkaey
- Nýey
- Papey
- Súlnasker
- Skáleyjar
- Surtsey
- Sviðnur
- Vestmannaeyjar
- Viðey
- Vigur
Member states of NATO
- Albania
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Canada and NATO
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- Finland and NATO
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Member states of NATO
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- North Macedonia and NATO
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Romania and NATO
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Sweden and NATO
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
Member states of the European Free Trade Association
- Iceland
- Liechtenstein
- Norway
- Passports of the EFTA member states
- Switzerland
- Visa requirements for EFTA nationals
Members of the Nordic Council
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Aegir Ridge
- Ascension Island
- Atlantis Massif
- Azores
- Azores Plateau
- Azores Triple Junction
- Bouvet Island
- Bouvet Triple Junction
- Canadian Arctic Rift System
- Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
- Eldeyjarboði
- Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone
- Gough Island
- Hydrothermal vents and seamounts of the Azores
- Iceland
- Iceland hotspot
- Jan Mayen
- Kane Fracture Zone
- Kings Trough
- Kolbeinsey
- Kolbeinsey Ridge
- Lost City Hydrothermal Field
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Mohns Ridge
- Nýey
- Project FAMOUS
- Rainbow Vent Field
- Romanche Trench
- Saint Helena
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago
- Shona hotspot
- South Greenland Triple Junction
- St. Helena hotspot
- Strýtan vent field
- Tristan da Cunha
- Vema Fracture Zone
Nordic countries
- Åland
- Climate of the Nordic countries
- Dagfinn Høybråten
- Denmark
- Faroe Islands
- Greenland
- Iceland
- List of diplomatic missions of the Nordic countries
- List of indoor arenas in Nordic countries
- List of largest shopping centres in the Nordic countries
- List of stadiums in the Nordic countries by capacity
- List of the busiest airports in the Nordic countries
- List of the most populous municipalities in the Nordic countries
- Nordek
- Nordic Athletics
- Nordic Council
- Nordic Innovation
- Nordic Journal of International Law
- Nordic Language Convention
- Nordic Strength
- Nordic countries
- Nordic cross flag
- Nordic energy market
- Nordic identity in Estonia
- Nordic integration
- Nordic law
- Nordic literature
- Nordic music
- Nordic swan
- Nordicism
- Norway
- Olsen Gang
- Scandinavian countries
- Secretary-General of the Nordic Council
- Subdivisions of the Nordic countries
- Sweden
- Synchronous grid of Northern Europe
- The Almost Nearly Perfect People
- Tursaansydän
- Urban areas in the Nordic countries
- Valhalla (youth portal)
OECD members
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of Ireland
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
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