Canada - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Canada was 8,965,590 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,965,590 in 2021 and a minimum value of 8,965,590 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 8,965,590
1962 8,965,590
1963 8,965,590
1964 8,965,590
1965 8,965,590
1966 8,965,590
1967 8,965,590
1968 8,965,590
1969 8,965,590
1970 8,965,590
1971 8,965,590
1972 8,965,590
1973 8,965,590
1974 8,965,590
1975 8,965,590
1976 8,965,590
1977 8,965,590
1978 8,965,590
1979 8,965,590
1980 8,965,590
1981 8,965,590
1982 8,965,590
1983 8,965,590
1984 8,965,590
1985 8,965,590
1986 8,965,590
1987 8,965,590
1988 8,965,590
1989 8,965,590
1990 8,965,590
1991 8,965,590
1992 8,965,590
1993 8,965,590
1994 8,965,590
1995 8,965,590
1996 8,965,590
1997 8,965,590
1998 8,965,590
1999 8,965,590
2000 8,965,590
2001 8,965,590
2002 8,965,590
2003 8,965,590
2004 8,965,590
2005 8,965,590
2006 8,965,590
2007 8,965,590
2008 8,965,590
2009 8,965,590
2010 8,965,590
2011 8,965,590
2012 8,965,590
2013 8,965,590
2014 8,965,590
2015 8,965,590
2016 8,965,590
2017 8,965,590
2018 8,965,590
2019 8,965,590
2020 8,965,590
2021 8,965,590

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 9,084,045
2000 9,084,045
2010 9,084,045

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 126,511
2000 126,511
2010 126,511

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use