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| | NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Military of Iceland |
 | | When Iceland became a founding member of NATO in 1949, it did so on the explicit understanding that Iceland, which has never had a state funded military, would not be expected to establish an indigenous force, although provinsions for such forces had been made in the Icelandic Constitution. |
 | | Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland) is a borderless country, a volcanic island in the northern Atlantic Ocean between Greenland, Norway, Ireland, Scotland and The Faroe Islands. |
 | | Icelanders enjoy freedom of religion as stated by the constitution; however, church and state are not separated and the Church of Iceland, a Lutheran body, is the state church. |
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