- Smaller than Pennsylvania, Iceland has a total area of 103,000 square kilometers.
- In the past 500 years, roughly one third of the Earth's total lava flow has poured out of the volcanoes of Iceland.
- Vatnajokull, the largest glacier in Iceland covers an area equal to the combined total area of all the glaciers on the continent of Europe.
- Iceland contains more hot springs than any other country in the world.
- Nearly 10% of Iceland's total area is covered in glacier ice.
- Almost all the homes and buildings are heated geothermally from natural hot springs and geysers.
- Approximately one tenth of Iceland is covered in cooled lava.
