Sports in Iceland are very popular. For nine recent years, Iceland remains a very healthy nation. Popular sports include handball, football, athletics, basketball, golf, volleyball, tennis, swimming, and chess; horseback riding on Icelandic horses is also popular and also Archery. In some of those sports, namely handball, football and basketball, Iceland is extremely successful, especially considering its population. It manages to compete at comparable level with countries that have 10-200 times its population.