Events in the year 2024 in Iceland. President: Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (until 1 August); Halla Tómasdóttir (since 1 August) Prime Minister: Katrín Jakobsdóttir...
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Parliamentary elections are due to be held in Iceland on 30 November 2024 to elect the 63 members of the Althing. The 2021 parliamentary election took...
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The 2024 Icelandic Cup, also known as Mjólkurbikarinn ("The Milk Cup") for sponsorship reasons, was the 65th edition of the Icelandic national football...
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Iceland was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Scared of Heights", written by Ásdís María Viðarsdóttir, Ferras Alqaisi, Jaro...
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Presidential elections were held in Iceland on 1 June 2024. Incumbent president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson announced that he would not seek a third term. Entrepreneur...
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The Iceland national football team (Icelandic: Íslenska karlalandsliðið í knattspyrnu) represents Iceland in men's international football. The team is...
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Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
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co-production between Iceland, United States, and United Kingdom. Touch was released in Iceland on 29 May 2024. It was chosen as the Icelandic entry for the Best...
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system in Iceland that started activity on August 17, 2014, and ended on February 27, 2015, is Bárðarbunga. The volcano in Iceland that erupted in May 2011...
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Icelandic population was just over 376,000. About 86,000 residents (23.7%) were of foreign background. About 99% of the nation's inhabitants live in urban...
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The 2023–2024 Sundhnúkur eruptions (Icelandic: Eldgosin við Sundhnúksgíga 2023–2024) are an ongoing series of volcanic eruptions in the Reykjanes Peninsula...
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The economy of Iceland is small and subject to high volatility. In 2011, gross domestic product was US$12 billion, but by 2018 it had increased to a nominal...
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Multiple wholesale and retail providers are operated in a competitive market. As of 2024, Iceland's telecom infrastructure is fully digitised and mostly...
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Iceland Foods Limited, trading as Iceland, is a British supermarket chain headquartered in Deeside, Wales. It mainly sells frozen foods, including prepared...
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Halla Tómasdóttir (category Icelandic women in politics)
October 1968) is an Icelandic former businesswoman and politician serving as the seventh president of Iceland since 2024. She is Iceland's second woman president...
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The modes of transport in Iceland are governed by the country's rugged terrain and sparse population. The principal mode of personal transport is the car...
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The politics of Iceland take place in the framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state...
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Iceland competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It signified the nation's participation at every single edition...
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largest group of immigrants in Iceland. On 1 January 2021, Statistics Iceland recorded 20,553 Polish-born people living in Iceland. Although small compared...
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Reykjavík (redirect from Capital of Iceland)
RAYK-yə-vik, -veek; Icelandic: [ˈreiːcaˌviːk] ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore...
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president of Iceland (Icelandic: Forseti Íslands) is the head of state of Iceland. The incumbent is Halla Tómasdóttir, who won the 2024 presidential election...
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Tourism in Iceland has grown considerably in economic significance in the past 15 years. As of 2016, the tourism industry is estimated to contribute about...
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Katrín Jakobsdóttir (category Candidates for President of Iceland)
to April 2024 and was a member of the Althing for the Reykjavík North constituency from 2007 to 2024. A graduate of the University of Iceland, she became...
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currently ranked as the 14th best women's national team in the world by FIFA as of June 2024. The Iceland women's national football team played its first game...
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Laufey (singer) (category Icelandic expatriates in the United States)
charted in Iceland and the United States. Its follow-up, Bewitched (2023), won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards (2024) and...
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Iceland has a multi-party system with many political parties, in which often no one party has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with...
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Þór Jónsson in September 2024. The party announced its participation in the 2024 parliamentary election. Arnar Þór Jónsson is an Icelandic lawyer and former...
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króna [ˈkʰrouːna] or krona (sometimes called Icelandic crown; sign: kr; code: ISK) is the currency of Iceland. One króna was formerly divided into 100 eyrir...
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of England, Iceland, Republic of Ireland or Wales could be drawn with Kazakhstan. The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 9 February 2024, the day following...
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recorded history of Iceland began with the settlement by Viking explorers and the people they enslaved from Western Europe, particularly in modern-day Norway...
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