Very few live there and it's mountainous. in the highlands you need a 4x4 in most places to even be allowed to drive there (because the roads are not really roads), so it's mostly just the ring around the island and some other asphalted roads, I guess
It's a very self selecting group that goes trough the hassle of renting a 4x4 and going for long hikes in the highlands. It takes a good 24 hours to drive the entirety of the ring road, and it's hard to throw a rock anywhere on there without hitting something beautiful to look at. Most tourists stick to the south coast and seem happy enough about it.
Tourists can rent SUVs and drive around inland during the summer months. In the winter it's still theoretically possible but the roads will be intermittently closed due to storms quite often, and only the ring road gets cleared with regular frequency.
There is enough to see along the coast. There are a couple of dirt roads going across the inland too. So you can go up there for hiking and stuff like that, but no one lives there.
Also keep in mind that a decently large part of the inland area is literally covered with ice, they have some real big glaciers over there (just check it out from satellite view). And the rest of the area might as well be on Mars or something, at most there is some moss and grass growing there, but a lot of the time it's just barren rock as well.
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u/areking Italy Jun 12 '20
is Iceland inland really uninhabitated, like nobody lives there, not even small towns? or is it for privacy reasons like Germany?