Blank Iceland Map

The outline of Iceland, fjords and all, plain or with its eight regions.

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Write the name of each numbered region (pre-2012 lines).Answer key

  1. Capital Region
  2. Eastern Region
  3. Northeastern Region
  4. Northwestern Region
  5. Southern Peninsula
  6. Southern Region
  7. Western Region
  8. Westfjords

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each region (pre-2012 lines) is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a region (pre-2012 lines) is answered.

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All 8 regions (pre-2012 lines) on the diagram

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  1. Capital Region
  2. Eastern Region
  3. Northeastern Region
  4. Northwestern Region
  5. Southern Peninsula
  6. Southern Region
  7. Western Region
  8. Westfjords

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01. THE REGION LINES ARE DATED: count and names are today's, the lines are the source's and older than 2012. The eight regions were read on 2026-10-01 at Statistics Iceland, population by regions (https://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/api/v1/en/Ibuar/mannfjoldi/2_byggdir/Byggdakjarnarhverfi/MAN03250.px: Capital region, Southwest, West, Westfjords, Northwest, Northeast, East, South), and compared with the list of ISO 3166-2 codes for Iceland as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:IS, eight regions) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Iceland; the labels are the English names of the last two, and Statistics Iceland's short names are accepted answers. Two lines are older than today's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Iceland, read 2026-10-01; each tested the same day against the source's polygons): Hornafjörður is drawn with the Eastern Region and has been counted with the Southern Region by Statistics Iceland since 1 December 2020, and the former Bæjarhreppur is drawn with the Westfjords and joined the Northwestern Region in 2012. The source draws Reykjavík apart from the rest of the Capital Region; the spec joins the two. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on 65.3°N 19.5°W. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank Iceland map opens on the plain outline of the island, with nothing drawn inside it. Switch Borders on for the eight regions, drawn with the region lines of before 2012.

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Outline first

The sheet opens as a blank outline map of Iceland: the coast, with the Westfjords in the northwest, and nothing inside. Press Print this map for a sheet to mark Reykjavík, glaciers, volcanoes or a route on.

The eight regions

Borders adds the eight regions; Numbered and Named label them. The names are today's. The lines are those of before 2012: Hornafjörður, the southeast coast around Höfn, is drawn in the Eastern Region and is now counted with the Southern Region.

  • The two smallest regions sit side by side in the southwest corner: the Capital Region around Reykjavík and the Southern Peninsula beside it.

Questions and answers

How many regions does Iceland have?

Eight: the Capital Region, Southern Peninsula, Western Region, Westfjords, Northwestern Region, Northeastern Region, Eastern Region and Southern Region. They group the municipalities for statistics; Iceland has no regional governments.

Are the region borders on this map current?

In two places they are older. Hornafjörður, around Höfn, is drawn in the Eastern Region; Statistics Iceland has counted it with the Southern Region since 2020. The former municipality of Bæjarhreppur is drawn in the Westfjords and joined the Northwestern Region in 2012.

Where is Reykjavík on the map?

In the Capital Region, in the southwest. It is the second smallest of the eight regions, and almost two thirds of Iceland's people live there.

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