Dominican Republic - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Dominican Republic was 48,310 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48,310 in 2021 and a minimum value of 48,310 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 48,310
1962 48,310
1963 48,310
1964 48,310
1965 48,310
1966 48,310
1967 48,310
1968 48,310
1969 48,310
1970 48,310
1971 48,310
1972 48,310
1973 48,310
1974 48,310
1975 48,310
1976 48,310
1977 48,310
1978 48,310
1979 48,310
1980 48,310
1981 48,310
1982 48,310
1983 48,310
1984 48,310
1985 48,310
1986 48,310
1987 48,310
1988 48,310
1989 48,310
1990 48,310
1991 48,310
1992 48,310
1993 48,310
1994 48,310
1995 48,310
1996 48,310
1997 48,310
1998 48,310
1999 48,310
2000 48,310
2001 48,310
2002 48,310
2003 48,310
2004 48,310
2005 48,310
2006 48,310
2007 48,310
2008 48,310
2009 48,310
2010 48,310
2011 48,310
2012 48,310
2013 48,310
2014 48,310
2015 48,310
2016 48,310
2017 48,310
2018 48,310
2019 48,310
2020 48,310
2021 48,310

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 42,784
2000 42,784
2010 42,784

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 5,089
2000 5,089
2010 5,089

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use