Similarly, British terms predominate in the world of snooker, English billiards and blackball, regardless of the players' nationalities. The term blackball is used in this glossary to refer to both blackball and eight-ball pool as played in the Commonwealth, as a shorthand.
Icelandâs population increased by 1% since last year, and about 12% of those living here come from abroad, Statistics Iceland reveals in a new report. According to the report, released yesterday, the current population of Iceland is 329,100, up by 1% (3,429 people, to be exact) from last year. The largest municipality remains ReykjavÃ­k, where 121,822 people live, while the smallest is Helgafellssveit, in SnÃ¦fellsnes, which is home to 53 people.
The first census of Iceland found a population of more than 50,000 in 1703, which declined to 40,000 after massive eruptions of the Laki volcano between 1783 and 1784. As living conditions improved, the population began to grow, eventually hitting 60,000 in 1850 then 320,000 by 2008.