Three quarters

Out of the four hundred thousand who live in Iceland, over three quarters live on the southwest corner. There are only 99 thousand citizens living outside of the soutwest corner/capital area. When you drive the ring road, almost 1500 kilometers, there is only one town, Akureyri, that has a population of just over twenty thousand. The second largest town that you drive through on the ring road is Borgarnes with 1,772 inhabitants, in third place is Egilsstadir with 1,559 inhabitants. I don’t include Selfoss, i count it as a part of the southwest corner, which stretches from Keflavík up to Akranes and almost, just over 50 km to Hveragerði and Selfoss. If you take into account the parts of the country that do not touch the ring road, Vestfirðir, Snæfellsnes and the beautiful northeast corner, no town in these parts of the country reaches 3000 inhabitants. Ísafjörður in Vestfirðir is the largest with 2,754 inhabitants, Húsavík on Tjörnes near Skjálfandi has 2,411 inhabitants, and Stykkishólmur on Snæfellsnes has 1,224. The pictures are from downtown Reykjavík, where winter greets three quarters of the country’s population in the southwest corner with real winter weather.