Belarus - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Belarus was 202,980 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 202,990 in 2017 and a minimum value of 202,810 in 2004.

Definition: Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

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Year Value
1961 202,840
1962 202,840
1963 202,840
1964 202,840
1965 202,840
1966 202,840
1967 202,840
1968 202,840
1969 202,840
1970 202,840
1971 202,840
1972 202,840
1973 202,840
1974 202,840
1975 202,840
1976 202,840
1977 202,840
1978 202,840
1979 202,840
1980 202,840
1981 202,840
1982 202,840
1983 202,840
1984 202,840
1985 202,840
1986 202,840
1987 202,840
1988 202,840
1989 202,840
1990 202,840
1991 202,840
1992 202,840
1993 202,840
1994 202,840
1995 202,840
1996 202,840
1997 202,840
1998 202,840
1999 202,840
2000 202,840
2001 202,840
2002 202,830
2003 202,830
2004 202,810
2005 202,830
2006 202,900
2007 202,900
2008 202,900
2009 202,820
2010 202,900
2011 202,910
2012 202,910
2013 202,908
2014 202,973
2015 202,978
2016 202,988
2017 202,990
2018 202,980
2019 202,980
2020 202,980
2021 202,980

Rural land area (sq. km)

Definition: Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 198,056
2000 198,056
2010 198,056

Urban land area (sq. km)

Definition: Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 7,783
2000 7,783
2010 7,783

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use