{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.administrative-division-of-iceland","code":"thing-q1143175","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1143175/","name":"administrative division of Iceland","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"","entryKind":"","plane":"","domain":["PHY.PLC"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A unit of the administrative divisions of Iceland, which is organised into municipalities, the main tier of local government, whose number has fallen through mergers and should be checked against current sources, and into eight regions used for statistics and constituencies, with older units including counties or syslur and the medieval farthings or fjordungar, the four quarters of the Commonwealth period used for courts at the Althing, while the capital Reykjavik is divided into ten districts for local 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