Many airline passengers visit the country while en route between the United States and Europe. Transportation, Communication, and Trade Iceland has no train transportation, so motor vehicle traffic is important. The country has more than 128,000 registered cars, or about one vehicle for each two people, which is almost as high as the ratio in the United States. A highway parallels the coast, but heavy traffic occurs only in the area of greater Reykjav k, which has morning and evening rush hours. The country has domestic air services and an international airline that regularly carries passengers to and from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and other European countries, and the United States.
Communications are well developed.
Reykjav k. Iceland depends upon foreign trade to bring in needed food and manufactured wares and to market its fish and other products. The leading imported products by value are fuel oil, motor vehicles, gasoline, ships, animal feed, fishnets and other gear, and cereals. Fish products completely dominate the exports. Iceland's trade is primarily with Western industrialized countries, such as Germany and the United States. Vigd s Government and History Iceland is a social democracy led by a president who is elected every four years.