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Some random facts about Iceland

GDP - composition by sector:agriculture: 8.4%
industry: 15.6%
services: 76% (2006 est.)
Telephone system:general assessment: extensive domestic service
domestic: the trunk network consists of coaxial and fiber-optic cables and microwave radio relay links
international: country code - 354; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Iceland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden)
Legal system:civil law system based on Danish law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Ethnic groups:homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6%
Land use:arable land: 0.07%
permanent crops: 0%
other: 99.93% (2005)

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