🇮🇸 Iceland 8 administrative divisions
8 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 237 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- IS · ISL · 352
- Capital
- Reykjavik
- Continent
- Europe
- Currency
- ISK — Icelandic krona
- Calling code
- +354
- Internet domain
- .is
- Divisions
- 8
- Cities and towns
- 237
Divisions
The 8 divisions of Iceland
8 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Region | IS-8 | 49 | 28,399 |
| Northeastern Region | IS-6 | 37 | 30,600 |
| Western Region | IS-3 | 35 | 17,541 |
| Westfjords | IS-4 | 32 | 7,379 |
| Eastern Region | IS-7 | 26 | 11,227 |
| Northwestern Region | IS-5 | 21 | 7,322 |
| Capital Region | IS-1 | 18 | 233,034 |
| Southern Peninsula Region | IS-2 | 12 | 27,829 |
A further 7 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Iceland
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/IS.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/IS/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.