iceland "land of ice"

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It's time to introduce you to the first part of Iceland, land of ice, fire and water, wonderful country worthy to be the first of our little travel guide #gtravel 🌍😎
Iceland, chapter II
It is a country located in the extreme northwest of Europe, in the north of the Atlantic Ocean with an area of ​​103,000km2 in which half of the population lives in Reykjavik, the capital.
The population is 338,349 people, it is not a very populated country, and the tourist index exceeds the ratio of inhabitants, specifically 8 tourists per inhabitant.
Tourists come attracted by its essence and magic of the island, each year millions of tourists go to the island to watch the midnight sun, horses, giant glaciers, whales, seals, puffins, lava fields, fjords, the hot water lake, the geysers and learn a little more about their stories and mythologies about the elves. Today I am going to write to you curiosities about Iceland and the Icelanders that are little known by tourists.
They have a very long and unpronounceable names because they inherit the name of the father and add their name below, they do not have surnames as the European countries, but they formulate with the name of the father followed by son (sson) or daughter (dottir) behind, that is, Lian is the son of Staf, the boy will be named Lian Stafsson.
This population has increased 4 times its initial proportion since 870 after Christ began to populate. Actually the density has increased very little.
How do Icelanders avoid bonding with a family member?
All the inhabitants are family of some degree to each other, for that reason they are cautious as soon as to strengthen relations, it is the only country that counts with Íslendingabók, the genealogical tree of all of them where they can consult and know their origins, and with the technological advances They have mobile applications to consult before establishing a new relationship.
The project of this book began with the study of a laboratory that studies the population. They even have an inhabitant counter to know the exact data of the state of their population. Link: http://countrymeters.info/en/Iceland

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@lince Marco a este usuario con flag porqué usó una imagen mía sin autorización y sin citar la fuente, y copiando el resto de mi post limitándose a traducirlo al inglés . En este caso el artículo original:
https://steemit.com/spanish/@bert0/curiosidades-de-islandia