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Immigration to Iceland rose rapidly in the late twentieth century, encouraged by Iceland's accession to the European Economic Area in 1994, its entry into the Schengen Agreement in 2001, and the country's economic boom in the early twenty-first century. The largest ethnic minority is Poles, who are about a third of the immigrant population. In ...
Icelandic, a North Germanic language, is the official language of Iceland (de facto; the laws are silent about the issue). Icelandic has inflectional grammar comparable to Latin, Ancient Greek, more closely to Old English and practically identical to Old Norse. Old Icelandic literature can be divided into several categories.
The national anthem of Iceland is "Lofsöngur", composed by Matthías Jochumsson and Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson. [7] The song was written in 1874, when Iceland celebrated the one thousandth anniversary of settlement on the island. It was in the form of a hymn, first published under the title A Hymn in Commemoration of Iceland's Thousand Years.
Icelandic people with disabilities (2 C, 10 P) E. Icelandic Esperantists (4 P) F. Icelandic families (3 C, 1 P) Fictional Icelandic people (1 C, 7 P) I. Kings of ...
Icelandic people by descent (54 C) E. Ethnic groups in Iceland (2 C, 4 P) Expatriates in Iceland (78 C, 1 P) I. Immigrants to Iceland (16 C, 7 P)
British people of Icelandic descent (2 C, 1 P) C. Canadian people of Icelandic descent (1 C, 108 P) D. Danish people of Icelandic descent (1 C, 13 P)
[28] [26] Iceland's cold climate slows plant growth, leaving the soil susceptible to the impact of strong winds. [26] Soil erosion, and land degradation in general, decreases biodiversity and the health of the surrounding ecosystems. [26] The government of Iceland and its people have undertaken many soil restoration projects.
Dettifoss, located in northeast Iceland. It is the second-largest waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m 3 /s. Iceland is an island country in Northern Europe, straddling the Eurasian and North American plates between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the British Isles.