• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    30,000 residents of the Reykjanes peninsula – a tenth of Iceland’s population.

    So… there is basically no one in Iceland.

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      10 months ago

      How is 300,000 people “no one”? That’s a lot of people, other countries having more doesn’t change that.

        • Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca
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          10 months ago

          0.00000375% of the world’s population is 300, not 30,000. I don’t think math’s your strong suit. Not that fractions of the world’s population should be a metric for whether we care about a disaster.

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        10 months ago

        Iceland birthed Sigur Ros and Bjork. You’re historically the most important country on earth in my book.

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      10 months ago

      Funny that you’re downvoted so heavily, my Icelandic buddy just nodded along at this statement

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      We were told as much when we visited. Apparently they get upwards of a million tourists a year, three times their actual population.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I was baffled how empty it is when I visited. Their capital is like a district in most other capitals.

      Still beautiful though.