• Capital: Reykjavik, pop. about 113,730

• Land area: 38,706 square miles

• Slight smaller than: Kentucky

• Population: 304,376

• Government: Constitutional republic

• Religion: 82 percent Lutheran Church of Iceland

• Economic drivers: Outsize banking industry has been devastated by the global economic crisis. Fishing, aluminum and ferrosilicon exports, tourism also prominent

CIA World Factbook,

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