Iceland Municipalities by Area

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Geographic boundaries and calculated surface area for the 61 municipalities of Iceland, providing precise land measurements in square kilometers.

At a glance

Records: 61
Geometry: Polygon
Location: Iceland
Country: Iceland

How this was made

Calculated the land area for each Icelandic municipality using boundary data from the prepared GIS dataset. The process involved measuring the area on a spheroid to ensure accuracy across Iceland's terrain and rounding the results to square kilometers.

Columns (2)

Column	Type	Statistics	Description
Municipality	string	—	The official name of the Icelandic municipality.
Area (km²)	numeric	min 2.11 · max 12020.95 · μ 1683.86	Calculated area of the municipality in square kilometers using WGS84 spheroid projection.

Data preview

Municipality	Area (km²)
Rangárþing eystra	1,831.5
Fljótsdalshreppur	1,516.54
Sveitarfélagið Ölfus	736.27
Hörgársveit	894.06
Skaftárhreppur	6,943.04
Hveragerðisbær	9.04
Tjörneshreppur	198.81
Sameinað sveitarfélag Borgarbyggðar og Skorradalshrepps	5,143.41
Snæfellsbær	682.16
Reykjanesbær	144.62

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