Ísafjörður is reversing Arctic decline—other northern communities take note
Despite Iceland’s dramatic population growth over the past century, the country’s Westfjords region remains a striking outlier. While the national population has more than quadrupled since 1900, the Westfjords today support roughly the same number of residents as they did over a century ago. Back then Ísafjörður was Iceland’s largest town, but for the latter part of the 20th century the region was shaped by economic centralization, industrial decline and the steady outmigration of youth.
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