Global Sourcebook for International Data Management
by Graham Rhind
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Iceland
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For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here , to postal code pages here
and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here
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Iceland - Country information
Local short name form
Official name
Area
Population
Capital
Currency
International telephone access code
ISO 3166 country codes
Car nationality plate code
Internet country code
GRC Country Code
Iceland - Number format
1.234,45
(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)
Iceland - Date and time formats
Iceland - Languages
Icelandic is spoken by 100% of the population.
Iceland - Personal names
Note: This section last updated 25th June 2011
Care must be taken when addressing Icelanders as members of the same family will have different surnames. Surnames are still formed from one of the given names of the father (or, more rarely, the mother) followed by dottír for females and son for males. Thus Eirík and Rutar, son and daughter respectively of Magnus Jonsson will be Eirík Magnusson and Rutar Magnusdottír.
Some families have family names which are inherited as is.
A law change has made it possible now for the mother’s name to be used as the stem for -dottir or -son instead of the father’s, or for both to be used in a double-barrelled family name.
Married women retain their own name. People are addressed using their first names, even in format situations.
Given the complexity of naming conventions, and that many Icelanders never know the family names of their friends or colleagues, Icelandic telephone directories are ordered on the basis of given names.
Given names that have not been previously used in Iceland must be approved by the Icelandic Naming Committee. The criterium for acceptance is whether they can easily incorporated into the Icelandic language. They must contain only letters found in the Icelandic alphabet and they must be able to be declined (that is, modified according to their grammatical case). Girls must have a female name and boys a male name. No more than three personal names per person are allowed.
Tables of names can be acquired: given names, surnames/family names
Iceland - Company legal forms
Icelandic legal company entities are:
Einkafyrirtaeki – sole proprietor Einkahlutafélagsgormið (EHF.) – private limited liability company Einstaklingsfyrirtæki - sole proprietorship Hlutafélag (HF.) – public limited liability company Opinbert hlutafélag (Ohf.) - government owned company Sameignarfélag (SF) – Partnership Samlagsfélag - Co-operative Samvinnufélag & Samlagsfelag (SVF & Samlagsfelag) - Co-operative
Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm
Iceland - Addresses
Addresses are written in the following format:
Contact name Street name[ ]number postal code[ ]TOWN NAME
For example:
The thoroughfare type is suffixed to the thoroughfare name without a space, as in, for example:
Holtagata 5
Below is a list of the most commonly occurring building and thoroughfare types:
barð borg braut byggð fell gata gerði götu grund hagi háls hjalli hlíð holt land lundur melur múli nes sel sendi siða strætii tangitún teigur torg tún vangur vegi vegur vellir
Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm
A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired
Other elements commonly found in address databases
hin, hinar, hinir, hinn and hio are articles in Icelandic.
Iceland - Post office box
Iceland - Postal codes
Postal codes (Póstnúmer) are formed of a block of 3 digits. The first digit cannot be 0. Street addresses and post office boxes have different postal codes for the larger settlements (Akureyri, Gardabaer, Hafnarfjörður, Keflavík, Kópavogur, Reykjavík, Selfoss, Seltjarnarnes and Vestmannaeyjar).
Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired
Iceland - Postal code format graphic
Iceland - Postal code format
Iceland - Postal code specifics
Iceland - Postal code regular expression
\A[1-9]\d{2,2}\Z
Iceland - Postal code level of coverage
Iceland - Postal code map
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Place names in Iceland
Note: This section last updated 30th September 2015
Refer to Exonyms in Iceland for full lists of place names in Iceland in other languages.
Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http:www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm
Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm
Iceland - Administrative districts
Note: This section last updated 8th November 2011
Iceland has 8 regions (landsvæði , singular landsvæðun):
Austurland
Höfuðborgarsvæði
Norðurland Eystra
Norðurland Vestra
Suðurland
Suðurnes
Vestfirðir
Vesturland
Administrative districts graphic
Telephone numbers in Iceland
Icelandic telephone numbers have no area codes. Subscriber numbers have 7 digits. Mobile numbers commence 6, 7 or 8.
Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm
References
- ^ citypopulation.de/en/iceland/admin/
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