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Iceland: Surface Area

Total Surface Area: 103,125 km2 / 39,816.7 mi2 (World Atlas-Iceland 2022)

  • World Rank: #106
  • 97.3% is Land Surface Area:  100,329 km2 (38,737.2 mi2) – .067% of the world’s total land area.
  • Only about .07 % of Iceland is arable, or suitable for growing crops.
  • 2.7% is Water Surface Area: 2,796 km2 (1,079.5 mi2) – 0.00077% of the world’s water surface. 
  • 11,000 km2 of Iceland’s land surface is covered by glaciers or glacial ice. (University of Iceland – Institute of Earth Sciences, Glaciers in Iceland)
  • Nearly 269 glaciers cover over 11,922 square kilometers (4,603 square miles) – or about 11.5% of Iceland’s surface (approximately .002% of Earth’s land surface), but the glaciers are losing an average of 11 billion tons of ice a year. (Arctic Adventures – Iceland’s Glaciers)
  • Iceland has a 758,000 square kilometer economic zone over water that extends 370.4 km (230.2 miles) outward from its 4,970 km (3,088.2 miles) coastline.