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There are eight regions of Iceland , mainly used for statistical purposes. The district court jurisdictions also follow this division. The Postal Code system follows the regions as well with a few exceptions. Before 2003 the regions were also used as constituencies for elections to Alþingi . These usages (except for the statistical ones) are however based upon an older version of the regions where Reykjavík proper was a special region and the surrounding municipalities in the current Capital region were a part of the Reykjanes region, currently known as Suðurnes. Formerly, Iceland was divided into four farthings. These were: Vestfirðingafjórðungur (Westfjord farthing), which included the Westfjords but reached down to the middle of Faxaflói , so it also included most of today's west region; Norðlendingafjórðungur (north farthing), which reached from Hrútafjörður in the west to Langanes in the east (the same as today's northeast and northwest regions); Austfirðingafjórðungur (Eastfjord farthing) which was almost the same as today's east region but also included what is now Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla and Sunnlendingafjórðungur (south farthing) which was really only the south-west part of the country, including the southern peninsula, what is today the capital region and what was left of the south farthing, Árnessýsla and Rangárvallasýsla . COMPARISON OF THE REGIONS SEE ALSO |
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