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Countries, nations, states.

World countries, the UK’s constituent countries, and US states. Capital, coordinates, two or three physical sentences, a landscape photograph, related labs. Filter by climate family or tectonic setting. Compare two places. Natural Earth positions; OpenStreetMap locators.

Also: World map studio · Live weather

Landscape for Iceland
Iceland. Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: a divergent plate boundary with a country on it.NASA / USGS / NOAA / Wikimedia Commons — see figure credit on the photograph

country · E polar · Hotspot

Iceland

Capital Reykjavík

64.15°N 21.94°W

Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: a divergent plate boundary with a country on it.

A mantle plume (hotspot) thickens the crust so the ridge stands above sea level. New basalt at the axis; ice on the high ground.

Earthquakes and fissure eruptions are the syllabus, not a volcanic arc. The island is not a subduction story.

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