Where is Iceland?

Iceland lies in the North Atlantic about 300 km east of Greenland and about 1,000 km west of Norway. It sits directly on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates pull apart, which is why it has so many volcanoes, geysers and hot springs. The island covers about 103,000 square kilometres but has fewer than 400,000 people, most of them in and around Reykjavík, the world’s northernmost capital of a sovereign state. Almost all of its electricity comes from hydropower and geothermal energy. Its parliament, the Althing, was founded in AD 930 and is one of the oldest in the world.