Belize - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Belize was 22,810 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22,810 in 2021 and a minimum value of 22,810 in 1961.

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 22,810
1962 22,810
1963 22,810
1964 22,810
1965 22,810
1966 22,810
1967 22,810
1968 22,810
1969 22,810
1970 22,810
1971 22,810
1972 22,810
1973 22,810
1974 22,810
1975 22,810
1976 22,810
1977 22,810
1978 22,810
1979 22,810
1980 22,810
1981 22,810
1982 22,810
1983 22,810
1984 22,810
1985 22,810
1986 22,810
1987 22,810
1988 22,810
1989 22,810
1990 22,810
1991 22,810
1992 22,810
1993 22,810
1994 22,810
1995 22,810
1996 22,810
1997 22,810
1998 22,810
1999 22,810
2000 22,810
2001 22,810
2002 22,810
2003 22,810
2004 22,810
2005 22,810
2006 22,810
2007 22,810
2008 22,810
2009 22,810
2010 22,810
2011 22,810
2012 22,810
2013 22,810
2014 22,810
2015 22,810
2016 22,810
2017 22,810
2018 22,810
2019 22,810
2020 22,810
2021 22,810

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 21,296
2000 21,296
2010 21,296

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 508.06
2000 508.06
2010 508.06

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use