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📏 🇮🇸 Iceland
The whole world, measured in Icelands
London is 3.2 Icelands away. Hover over (or tap) anywhere on the map to see how many Icelands away it is.
Drawing the map…
How we measure
1 Iceland = 514 km (319 mi), the longest straight line you can draw across Iceland. Distances run along the Earth’s surface from the nearest edge of Iceland (its main landmass: far-off islands and overseas territories aren’t counted), so anywhere inside it is 0 Icelands away.
The farthest you can get from Iceland
38.5 Icelands
19,766 km (12,282 mi) away, in the Indian Ocean (Nearest land: Antarctica, 458 km away). That’s near the exact opposite side of the planet.
Famous cities, in Icelands
| City | Icelands | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3.2 Icelands | 1,663 km |
| France | 3.9 Icelands | 2,003 km |
| Russia | 5.6 Icelands | 2,898 km |
| Italy | 5.9 Icelands | 3,037 km |
| United States | 8 Icelands | 4,124 km |
| Egypt | 9.6 Icelands | 4,951 km |
| Nigeria | 12.8 Icelands | 6,576 km |
| United States | 13.2 Icelands | 6,778 km |
| Mexico | 14.3 Icelands | 7,353 km |
| China | 14.6 Icelands | 7,509 km |
| India | 15.4 Icelands | 7,924 km |
| Japan | 16.5 Icelands | 8,464 km |
| United States | 18.6 Icelands | 9,566 km |
| Brazil | 19.1 Icelands | 9,811 km |
| South Africa | 22 Icelands | 11,302 km |
| Argentina | 22.2 Icelands | 11,392 km |
| Australia | 31.7 Icelands | 16,289 km |
More fun in Icelands
- It takes 78 Icelands to wrap all the way around the equator.
- A tunnel straight through the middle of the Earth would be 24.8 Icelands long.
- The Moon is 748 Icelands away.