Iceland
Northern Europe · Reykjavik
Everything Mapfold knows about Iceland, and the 3 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Iceland in figures
- Capital
- Reykjavik
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Area
- 103,000 km²
- Population
- 392,404
- Density
- 3.8 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 0
- Coast
- No land border
- Highest point
- 2,110 m
- Mean temperature
- 1.9 °C
- Life expectancy
- 82.8 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 98,323
- Urban
- 94.2 %
- Forest
- 0.5 %
Iceland in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Iceland answers to it. This is not a fact about Iceland so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Iceland
3 answers are enough to leave Iceland alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
GDP per head is above $40,000.
29 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
It shares no land border with anyone.
6 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
Its centre lies north of 45°N.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Iceland unusual
GDP per head is above $40,000.
29 of 192 countriesIts centre lies north of 45°N.
32 of 192 countriesIt shares no land border with anyone.
37 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $40,000.
29 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies north of 45°N.
32 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than a million people live there.
36 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It shares no land border with anyone.
37 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in Europe.
44 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages under 12 °C all year.
49 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at most one country.
54 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
59 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $12,000.
78 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is above 75.
85 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages cooler than 22 °C all year.
88 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 30% of it is forest.
92 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies west of 20°E.
95 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than ten million people live there.
97 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers more than 100,000 km².
107 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is above 2,000 m.
118 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is bigger than Belgium.
135 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is thinner than 150 people per square kilometre.
136 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Asia.
146 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 60% of it is forest.
166 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Iceland compares
- Bigger than South Korea
- Smaller than Guatemala
- More people than Vanuatu
- Fewer people than Bahamas
- 106th largest of 192 by area
- 171st by population, of 192
Which countries border Iceland
Iceland shares no land border with anyone.
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