Television in Iceland is composed of the public broadcasting service of RÚV, five free-to-view channels and a number of subscription channels provided...
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Telecommunications in Iceland is a diversified market. Iceland has a highly developed telecommunications sector with modern infrastructure. Multiple wholesale...
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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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The following is a list of television series produced in Iceland: Icelandic TV at the Internet Movie Database...
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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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Magnús Scheving (category Icelandic television personalities)
Magnús Örn Eyjólfsson Scheving (Icelandic: [ˈmaknuːs ˈscɛːviŋk]; born 10 November 1964) is an Icelandic writer, television producer, actor, entrepreneur...
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Vodafone Iceland is an Icelandic telecommunications company owned by Sýn. Although the company carries the Vodafone brand and trademark, Vodafone Group...
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LazyTown (redirect from No One is Lazy in LazyTown)
LazyTown (Icelandic: Latibær) is an English-language Icelandic-British-American children's educational television series created by aerobics champion...
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Trapped (Icelandic: Ófærð) is an Icelandic television mystery drama series, created by Baltasar Kormákur and produced by RVK Studios. It was broadcast in Iceland...
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RÚV (TV channel) (redirect from RUV (television channel))
RÚV is the main television channel of RÚV, the Icelandic public broadcaster, launched in 1966. The free-to-air channel broadcasts primarily news, sports...
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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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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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Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir (category Icelandic television actresses)
from which she graduated in 1990. She subsequently moved back to Iceland to re-launch a career on the stage and television as a mature artist, making...
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RÚV (category 1930 establishments in Iceland)
[ˈruːv]; lit. 'The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service') is Iceland's national public-service broadcasting organization. Founded in 1930, it operates...
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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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Iceland Icelandic cuisine Beer in Iceland Festivals in Iceland Iceland Airwaves Heraldry in Iceland Media of Iceland Miss Iceland Museums in Iceland National...
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Women in Iceland generally enjoy good gender equality. As of 2018, 88% of working-age women were employed, 65% of students attending university were female...
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Iceland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 36 times since its debut in 1986, missing only two contests since then, in 1998 and 2002, when...
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Sports in Iceland are very popular. Popular sports include football, handball, athletics, basketball, chess, golf, volleyball, tennis, skiing, snowboarding...
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Stefán Karl Stefánsson (category Icelandic male television actors)
ˈstɛfənsən/ STEF-ən STEF-ən-sən, Icelandic: [ˈstɛːfaun ˈkʰartl̥ ˈstɛːfaunsɔn]; 10 July 1975 – 21 August 2018) was an Icelandic actor and singer. He was best...
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Initially it only broadcast in Iceland but it has since expanded its coverage to a large part of Europe. It broadcasts in the United Kingdom on Sky as...
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Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Estonian French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Israeli Italian Japanese Korean Kurdish Latvian Lithuanian Malay...
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state. Iceland applied for membership in 2009. The Minister for Foreign Affairs sent a letter in 2015 that ended the application process. Iceland is a member...
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Eysteinn Sigurðarson (category Icelandic male television actors)
role came in the Mary Reyndal directed Icelandic television series Mannasiðir (Manners) where he played an Icelandic schoolboy; his performance in the series...
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For centuries Iceland's main industries were fishing, fish processing and agriculture. In the 19th century, 70–80% of Icelanders lived by farming, but...
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Iceland is an island country at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, east of Greenland and immediately south of the Arctic Circle,...
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Iceland has been a very isolated and linguistically homogeneous island historically, but has nevertheless been home to several languages. Gaelic was the...
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Thin Ice (2020 TV series) (category Television shows filmed in Iceland)
Thin Ice is a 2020 television series set in Greenland and the Icelandic seas. A co-production between Icelandic, French and Swedish companies the first...
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The system of education in Iceland is divided in four levels: playschool, compulsory, upper secondary and higher, and is similar to that of other Nordic...
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Magnus Magnusson (redirect from Magnús Magnússon (British television presenter))
January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based journalist, translator, writer and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost...
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