Map of Iceland

Iceland is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 65.0° N, 18.0° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Iceland is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Iceland is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Iceland covers about 103,000 km² (39,769 sq mi). That makes it the 106th-largest country in the world by area and the 16th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 29 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 391,810, the 174th-largest in the world and the 40th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Iceland has an average population density of about 4 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 40th by population and 16th by area.

The seat of government is Reykjavik, and the official currency is the Icelandic króna (ISK, kr), and the main official language is Icelandic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Iceland carries the ISO country codes IS and ISL, dials on the international calling code +354 and uses the .is internet domain.

Iceland has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 65.0° N, 18.0° W places it about 7,215 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of Europe.

The interactive map above is centred on 65.0° N, 18.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Iceland within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Reykjavik. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Iceland lies about 7,215 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Iceland keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Icelandic króna (ISK, kr).

The official language is Icelandic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +354 and websites commonly use the .is internet domain.

In short, Iceland is an island nation in Europe, with no land borders. Its capital is Reykjavik. Iceland has a population of about 391,810 and covers around 103,000 km² (39,769 sq mi), ranking it 174th in the world by population and 106th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Iceland.

The flag of Iceland has a blue field with a large white-edged red cross that extends to the edges of the field. The vertical part of this cross is offset towards the hoist side.

The flag of Iceland is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.